Hello Shawols!
I hope you’re all doing well through everything 🙂 It’s definitely been an adjustment trying to get back into the groove of things on here since December 2017. There’s not much to post these days seeing as all our boys but Taemin are in the military at this time but they will return soon!
How could I not post for today? I haven’t forgotten about where this little site of ours has started ❤
Show lots of love for them today and enjoy some songs and videos 😉
Well… a lot has happened since I last updated, hasn’t it? -.-;
All the boys, except Taemin, have headed off to the military. There’s also been a Taemin release, Key release, and so many pics from events and airports and videos that need to be uploaded.
I can see their has been a lot of activity and even some new members in my absence so I thank you from the bottom of my heart for keeping this little site of mine alive. I hope any new Shawols that may have visited were able to find some sources of information here and I appreciate the old Shawols who have continued to visit! ❤
It was a long healing process and I wasn’t entirely sure I would ever post again. I had considered just coming back here for memories or for any comments or questions and to just have it available to anyone who wanted to come visit. But I still follow SHINee like always and love them just as much as when I started so why stop, right? I won’t be as active as I was before, that’s for sure. But I’ll do my best to update with any important news and keep you posted during comebacks.
I’m happy to be with all of you again!!
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With love, xoxo
T4L
“Our hyung happy birthday. I love you and miss you”
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Happy Birthday Jonghyun! I love you and miss you! ❤ ❤ ❤
I hope everyone can celebrate the day you were born since it is a very important day and be happy! 🙂
My dearest Jonghyun, today makes it day 84. It’s almost going to be three months and then the 100th day. Time flies, doesn’t it? I’m a bit behind on posting things but I plan to get back on track. It’s just not the same, you understand right? Don’t get me wrong, I want to continue and I will because this site means everything to me and I’m sure you wouldn’t want me to stop. It’s just, the updates were mainly focused on the concerts and the last day was very difficult for me. I hope my followers understand and I’m thankful for their patience.
It’s so hard to see just four there and it’s a constant reminder of how you can never come back. I think how much harder it must be for the other boys and how sad they are. The concerts were difficult for them and I tended to not read fan accounts so much just because it was heartbreaking, but seeing pictures of them smiling and reading how they were able to joke around made me happy. They’re taking the first steps to being okay again. I’m so proud of them.
Recently, a friend mentioned suicide to me and I got upset. They have no idea how much what you did still affects me. I think about you everyday and I distract myself by not looking at SHINee things too much anymore, I haven’t even really touched any videos related to you since last month. Why is that? Anyway, just because I’m not seeing so many things related to you doesn’t mean I don’t think of you. Some days I think of you more than others, especially at night. Some days just hit me really hard and then I’ll miss you a lot, but I’m doing okay. I mentioned you for the first time in awhile today.
I plan to visit Korea in November or maybe December, I’ll be sure to visit your memorial in Coex Artium and give you flowers. I had a dream about you, I just wish I could remember clearly what it was. You were still alive and I saw you at night with the moon shining but that’s all I remember. I always remember so many pointless dreams, I just wish I could remember this one… anyway, I’m glad I dreamt about you.
It’s almost your birthday, as well as mine. I’ll be sure to celebrate your day some way. As always, I miss you and love you very much ❤
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This is making me so sad…
Thank you for supporting me in this and taking part in the memorial for our Jonghyun. All the letters are beautiful and your words of support for me that were included in the emails were much appreciated and I hold them in my heart, really. Thank you for the patience while it took me a bit long to do this and I changed the date a few times.
This is the song he made for us to give us comfort during his death and here is a video with translations below.
“I can’t just watch you be the same as me”, really hit me. You see, he loves all of us so much. Please try to be happy for him and get better. Don’t fall down the same path he did. I often get the question as to why did he do it, didn’t we or SHINee or his family mean anything to him, etc. I get it, I ask myself those questions too. Nothing could ever justify what he did or make it less selfish but I do forgive him and I understand he wasn’t in his right state of mind. People make depression out to be some mental disorder, in reality, it’s a feeling that tries to tear you apart and it gets worse and worse to the point you fall down the same path Jonghyun did. It consumes you if you let it and it weakens you if you’re not strong enough to fight it. Please don’t be the same as him, please may no more Shawols kill themselves. I know you’re strong enough to be okay. I always tell people, there has to be darkness to see the stars. Overcome your darkness and see the shining star that Jonghyun is now.
Hopefully, this memorial won’t be sad but it brings you peace.
Here is a beautiful letter from Annalee:
“Dear Jonghyun,
I still don’t know how to write this, a memorial, a tribute. I still don’t know how to write about you in the past tense. But I want to participate in a memorial, to make sure you are remembered, to make sure everyone knows how much we love you.
To start off with what I loved most about you. I wasn’t sure what my answer to that was. There are obvious answers, such as your talent, your voice, your smile; there are deeper ones, such as your courage, your support, your compassion. I loved how you always encouraged others, and stood up for what you believed in, even if I didn’t always agree. I loved how you sought to help people, how you looked after your brothers, mother, and sister. And there are little things; I loved how you always fixed your hair in front of any reflective surface, I loved how you got excited over matters, the way you looked at your brothers. But to say I loved any of these most can’t be done. It is a hard question because, when you love someone, you love them as a whole; you overlook faults, and even small eccentricities become dear, so pinpointing a reason or a trait that mattered most, I can’t decide. I love you because you are Jonghyun, one of the bright, shining stars that made my life so much better, who brought me joy just by seeing you, who worked so hard and achieved so much and yet remained humble (mostly, as I still remember the comment about how your heart didn’t flutter, you made other hearts flutter 😉 ).
The second, to name a favorite memory of you; that was easier, for I saw you in person in Chicago, and despite how dreamlike it seems over a year and a half later, that night is easily one of my most important memories of you and your brothers. To sit there in the same room and see you in front of me, surrounded by people who loved all of you the same way I did, I am grateful I had the chance to experience. I will cherish that night in my heart, and continue to cherish every new memory as well.
So, my love, this concludes yet another letter. I only want to add, thank you for your life, and for giving so much of it to others to make them happy. Now I know you are, too, and far along in the future, I will see you and tell you myself.
As always, I love you, Jonghyun. And I always will.”
Here is a beautiful letter from April:
Roo is currently in the care of a pet hotel since it happened. She was sent there to have fun and make new friends as her way to cope. She’s doing well!
SHINeeverybody 