I used to be skeptical about love at the first sight. Well, I guess I am always skeptical about love at the first sight. How can we know that we love someone even before we get to know them? Moreover, how can we fall in love with someone whom we do not know? In my humble opinion, that is not love. That is just a mere attracted feeling rather than love. To call it love is overrated. It is all based completely on looks. And, hey, do not judge a book by its cover, though sometimes a cover tells so much about a book. I believed that was how the way it is until I met my significant other for the first time six years ago. It was not the first time we met, actually, but that was the first time I recognized him. And yes, a part of me still believes that it was purely just an attracted feeling. However, somehow there is another part of me that tells me it was more than that. It was the feeling that somehow we were connected to each other; that we were meant to know each other even before we met. Whether it was from the previous life or another timeline of this life or an alternate universe or another dimension, we were connected somehow.
“I only look at things I want to
look at. I only search for things I’m curious about, but it turns out to be
you. It’s always you all this time.” –Jung Joon Young, Where Are You? (내가 너에게 가든 네가 나에게 오든)
My favorite Korean
rocker, Jung Joon Young, lend his gorgeous voice for the soundtrack of 2016
popular drama series “W”, or also well-known as “Two Worlds”. At first, I did
not really keen on this song. Even up until this point, it is not my favorite
track of Jung. However, as I listen to it more often and as I understand more
about the lyrics, I begin to fall in love with this song. It is titled “Where
Are You? (내가 너에게 가든 네가 나에게 오든)”. The literal English translation of the title is “Whether I Go to You
or You Come to Me”, but the official English title is “Where Are U”. The rock
ballad track was released as “W OST Part 1” single album on July 27th 2016.
Lyrically, the song depicts the meeting of two lead characters in the drama
series, Kang Chul (portrayed by Lee Jong Suk) and Oh Yeon Joo (portrayed by Han
Hyo Joo). Two of them live in two different worlds, yet when they meet, somehow
deep inside they know that they belong to each other. Moreover, Kang Chul feels
like Oh Yeon Joo is the person who holds the key of his life, just by their
first meeting.
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| "W OST Part 1" single album cover | source: wiki.d-addicts.com |
This life is indeed
going in a very funny. There is this immensely famous saying: we never know
what tomorrow brings. Well, that is true in some way. However, there are some
people who are able to predict the future and foreseen what tomorrow may bring.
No, we can never guess that we would meet our significant other and it turned
out that he came from a different world. However, somehow when we meet them, we
already know that we belong together. We got that feeling since the first time
we met them. Hence life is funny, isn’t it? How could we feel connected to
someone whom we’ve never met before? But that kind of thing happened for real.
Could it be possible that there is another life where we were connected before?
No one really knows why. “When you look
down at the world from the sky, how would it look like? When you connect the
dots of all the people, what will it become? Who knows that perhaps it will be
the line that connects you and me? Who knows that you’re someone I’ll meet some
day? We just don’t know; no one does.”
This universe is
indeed has some mystery. It is never failed to surprise us. How could we sense
a familiarity from someone whom we’ve just met? How could we feel like we’ve
known someone for a lifetime when we actually just barely know them? How could
we feel connected to someone whom we’ve never met before? How could we feel
like we belong together with someone whom we’ve never known before? Could there
be another ourselves in another world? Could we be connected to that person in
another universe or in the previous life? No one really knows the truth.
However, the truth doesn’t matter anyway, because eventually it is a wonderful
feeling to meet someone like that in this life. For being able to know someone
like that in this universe, it feels preciously amazing. “We kept meeting continuously, but we just didn’t see each other.
Whether it was good or bad, it didn’t matter; we always passed by each other.
Who know that perhaps we’re actually close and know each other really well? But
we still don’t really know the truth; no one does.”
What do people look
for while living life in this universe anyway? What do we search for? What do
we want? What do we need? What is our purpose? What is the meaning of our
existence? No one really knows the answer. Hence everyone lives for knowing the
answer. I said that it feels preciously amazing to meet someone like that
because meeting someone like that makes us feel like we finally got the answer
of all those questions. Knowing someone like that that makes us feel like we
are able to understand the answer for all those questions, eventually. It feels
like that person is holding the key of our life; the key to understand our
existence. Hence, it doesn’t matter if we’re worlds apart from that person.
Whether we go towards them or they come towards us, we belong together at the
same place. “I only look at things I want
to look at. I only search for things I’m curious about, but it turns out to be
you. It’s always you all this time. We’re walking through the same time as
we’re connected to each other. Whether I go to you or you come to me, let’s be
under the same sky.”
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| The main couple from "W" drama series, Kang Chul (portrayed by Lee Jong Suk) and Oh Yeon Joo (portrayed by Han Hyo Joo) | source: MBC |
I always think that this universe is working in a funny and satirical way. I’m thinking about that more often lately. The more I get to know my significant other, the more I feel that our souls must be connected in the previous life. In other words, if there was an alternate universe somewhere out there, then I and my significant other must be connected. Looking at him feels like looking at my own reflection on the mirror. It feels like he is another version of me that comes from another world. And yes, he is indeed from a different world of mine. Though we have same frequency, read the same page, and speak the same language, we definitely came from two different worlds. And that is also why we are separated by some time, space, and distance currently. However, meeting him makes me feel like I got the answer to my existence. Knowing him makes me feel like I found the purpose and meanings to my life. Hence he is someone I just cannot let go. Henceforth, it does not matter whether I go to him or he comes to me, I will always make an endless effort for us to be together. I fight for our togetherness for always.
“We’re walking through the same
time as we’re connected to each other. Whether I go to you or you come to me,
let’s be under the same sky.” –Jung Joon Young, Where Are You? (내가 너에게 가든 네가 나에게 오든)
하늘에서 내려다본 세상은 어떤 모습 일까
(Haneureseo naeryeodabon sesangeun eotteon
moseup ilkka)
((When you look down
at the world from the sky, how would it look like?))
점 같은 사람들을 이어보면 또 무엇이 될까
(Jeom gateun saramdeureul ieobomyeon tto mueosi
doelkka)
((When you connect the
dots of all the people, what will it become?))
그건 아마 너와 내가 연결된 선일지도 몰라
(Geugeon ama neowa naega yeongyeoldoen
seoniljido molla)
((Who knows that
perhaps it will be the line that connects you and me?))
언젠가 만나게 될 사람인 걸 잘 모르고 살지 어떤 누구도
(Eonjenga mannage doel saramin geol jal moreugo
salji eotteon nugudo)
((Who knows that you’re
someone I’ll meet some day? We just don’t know, no one does))
내가 보려는 것만 보고 내가 궁금한 것만 찾고
(Naega boryeoneun geosman bogo naega
gunggeumhan geosman chajgo)
((I only look at
things I want to look at, I only search for things I’m curious about))
바로 너였다는 걸 그게 너였다는 걸
(Baro neoyeossdaneun geol geuge neoyeossdaneun
geol)
((But it turns out to
be you, it’s always you all this time))
우린 같은 시간을 걸어 서로 연결되어 있단 걸
(Urin gateun siganeul georeo seoro
yeongyeoldoeeo issdan geol)
((We’re walking
through the same time as we’re connected to each other))
내가 너에게 가든 네가 나에게 오든 같은 하늘 아래로
(Naega neoege gadeun nega naege odeun gateun
haneul araero)
((Whether I go to you,
or you come to me, let’s be under the same sky))
우린 모두 끊임없이 만났지 보지 못했을 뿐
(Urin modu kkeunhimeopsi mannassji boji
moshaesseul ppun)
((We kept meeting
continuously, but we just didn’t see each other))
좋거나 나쁘거나 상관없이 늘 스치듯 말이야
(Johgeona nappeugeona sanggwaneopsi neul
seuchideut mariya)
((Whether it was good
or bad, it didn’t matter, we always passed by each other))
어쩜 우린 서로를 아는 가까운 사람일지 몰라
(Eojjeom urin seororeul aneun gakkaun saramilji
molla)
((Who know that
perhaps we’re actually close and know each other really well?))
하지만 아직 우린 그 사실을 잘 모르고 살지 어떤 누구도
(Hajiman ajik urin geu sasireul jal moreugo
salji eotteon nugudo)
((But we still don’t
really know the truth, no one does))
내가 보려는 것만 보고 내가 궁금한 것만 찾고
(Naega boryeoneun geosman bogo naega
gunggeumhan geosman chajgo)
((I only look at
things I want to look at, I only search for things I’m curious about))
바로 너였다는 걸 그게 너였다는 걸
(Baro neoyeossdaneun geol geuge neoyeossdaneun
geol)
((But it turns out to
be you, it’s always you all this time))
우린 같은 시간을 걸어 서로 연결되어 있단 걸
(Urin gateun siganeul georeo seoro
yeongyeoldoeeo issdan geol)
((We’re walking
through the same time as we’re connected to each other))
내가 너에게 가든 네가 나에게 오든 같은 하늘 아래로
(Naega neoege gadeun nega naege odeun gateun
haneul araero)
((Whether
I go to you, or you come to me, let’s be under the same sky))Wrote by Mashita Fandia
