Find Happiness while Finding Joy. ♥

Now and then, it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

- Yesung (@shfly3424)

I searched this phrase on Google and discovered that this is a famous quote from different people. I couldn't credit the original since I don't know who he is, but I think it just made enough sense - especially that it is a Super Junior member who shoved it to our faces.

Indeed, it pays off to pause from our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. To put it bluntly, we need not to rush.

We are almost at the end of the year; and in this fandom, it is the time when we get ourselves fully busy with voting on charts and buying albums just to get Super Junior on top and make them win year-end awards. And admit it or not, we are constantly looking towards our destination. We focus on the future.

No, I'm not saying that it's wrong to do that. I would even encourage all of us to continue what we're doing, since it is for the boys' sake and those are the only things we could do to help make their dreams come true.

But at times, we have to slow down. We look forward to the happiness that our efforts could eventually provide us all that we fail to realize that too much pressure is engulfing us all.

Now this is a stupid claim, I know. But for some people who share the same sentiments as mine (which I know you would figure out yourselves), I think this write-up is making sense.

Yes, we do everything to make them win. We do everything to be happy. But have we noticed that as we pursue that joy, we are hurting others - including ourselves - in the process?

I had my fair share of the guilt and if this article and Jongwoon's tweet would somehow knock sense on some people, I think it will serve its purpose well. Okay. What I'm saying is as we go towards the fulfillment of our dream, we fail to realize that we're leaving traps and hindrances so that others wouldn't be able to follow. 

Supporting Super Junior will make us happy, that's a given fact. But if as we move towards the peak of our support, we keep on talking shit and trash about other groups, then what would that make us? Selfish bastards? No, I don't want to be tagged as one. 

So just like what Yesung tweeted, I think it's just worthwhile to pause for a while and appreciate the things that allow us to be happy. That doesn't mean that we should forget our cause, though. But you see, we could do it using friendly competition. 

We need not to bring others down just so we could advance. We have to pause for sometime to allow ourselves to breathe. Sure thing, this is a serious matter for all of us; but you know, life gets boring if you take it seriously. Let's all look at the bright side of this competition and find happiness while finding joy. 

This article isn't just for the fans of Super Junior only; because as how I've seen it, it's not only in my fandom that people who don't know how to be happy could come from :)

A Single Award Doesn’t Make Any Difference

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reup: superlover♫@sj-world.net

Just when we thought they’re on the top, the 1st Melon Music Awards had proven us that Super Junior has yet a long way to travel.

And what I’ve said is basically just a hoax.

BECAUSE SUPER JUNIOR IS THE BEST.

(If you don’t agree, leave this site at once.)

I know many are fussing over the issue of Super Junior winning JUST ONE AWARD last night. Considering that in the voting process, the boys are leading in the 2009 Artist category. (We’ve already expected DBSK to win 2009 Mania and 2009 Star, right?)

Yet we’ve only won once. Super Junior was declared one of the TOP ARTISTS OF 2009. Most of the awards went to SNSD. So basically, it is still people from SM Town who are considered the bests. It’s actually one reason to just let this issue pass by.

Now what am I trying to say? Simple. CALM DOWN.

Super Junior has taken over the Golden Disk Awards and all other awarding ceremonies in South Korea for this year. They’ve garnered a lot of recognitions throughout the whole of 2009. Those are actually enough to convince ourselves that Super Junior is the best.

I don’t know what’s got into me to say these things. I’ve been reading a lot of comments since last night saying that MMA was unfair. But to me, they did their job well.

I’m not rejoicing over Super Junior winning just a single recognition. But I’m just relieved that this time, no one can say that the award-giving body is biased towards SM or JYP or YG. I’m so much fed up with the issues of unfairness and discrimination. I’ve already got lots of it in my country so I don’t want to see it in South Korea too. Especially among the artists I love and look up to.

Here’s the truth for me: the 1st Melon Music Awards played a vital role in the pacification of fans in South Korea. Indeed, it is the strictest award-giving body in the entertainment sector of the country and it has just proven its credibility to me.

And look, there really is no BEST among artists. Because each group has fans who consider them as the number one in this whole wide world. You get to understand that if you just give yourself a chance to be understood. This paragraph actually explains my declaration above.

Super Junior won just one award (and if the Top10 wasn’t called in random, then I could say they were on the hook), but it’s okay with me. I won’t whine or rant over it. It doesn’t bother me anyway. Because receiving a single award on the time when I thought that they would get almost everything doesn’t make any difference.

Because for me, victorious or not, they are still my Super Junior, and they are still the best artists in this whole Sapphire Blue planet.