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Hamin talked about the meaning of each lyrics from his own interpretation 🖤 Hamin said though mathematically 0+0 doesn’t change the fact that it’ll stay 0, but it’s different when it comes to the wordplay itself. Those numbers become yeongyeong (eternity) and it creates an entirely different narrative which he likes. Sometimes, we treat people like they’re nothing, and hamin said he himself doesn’t have any talent nor does he think that he’s better than others. However, he believes that you can never value a person based on numbers—those such as how many achievement have you gotten, how many people who recognize you, those things cannot express nor can it define someone’s entire value. And just because two lacking people met each other, it doesn’t mean that the relationship between those people is lacking as well. It’s actually the opposite, when you try to understand each other’s shortcomings, hamin said you could build a better relationship. He said this resembles the Grapefruit Apricot Club, where people who are hurt and carried their pain met each other and through that, they’re able to think of facing tomorrow differently. Hamin genuinely wished when the days that you feel down and couldn’t stop all the negative thoughts swirling in your mind, you wouldn’t stay like that for too long and let it consume you. You don’t have to be able to be good at something to be considered precious. He hopes you remember that you are cherished because you are yourself, not because of anything else. As for the expressions in the song, hamin said there are quite a few unique expressions. At first, they might appear as just mere expressions, however as you delve deep into it, it holds a different meaning. The example being cocoa which is usually drink during winter, and watermelon which are mostly consumed during summer. This might make you think, is it weird if want to switch it up by drinking cocoa in the summer and eating watermelon for winter time? Hamin didn’t think so. This question reminded him of the standard we’re living in this world. We are expected to achieve something and not fall behind, that we have to always perform well, and yet essentially everyone is the same, you don’t have to live that way. It is fine to walk a bit slower than others, you might wanna go another way and create another path for yourself and that itself is also fine. Hamin believes that none of those things are wrong, as those circumstances are all also depicted in the book—where those children had to struggle due to other people’s standards and expectations set upon them. That’s why hamin said the phrase of “summer cocoa and winter watermelon” made him imagined of such a world. Instead of a world where being out of place is not acceptable, he thought of a world where you can just freely do whatever you like without having to fear of being criticized by others, a world you can genuinely love. Hamin hopes, PLLI can live like that too. Live a life where you don’t hate yourself as you tried to fit into the standards. He wishes for PLLI to not forget that you can do whatever you want, that it’s okay to be a little slower, it’s okay to choose a different path, as long as you choose and believe in yourself. The next phrase is “eternal life” and “eternal peace”. Just like the name suggested, eternal life means a cycle where you’ll always live, and eternal peace is often associated by “resting in peace” in eternal sleep. Both words are connected to soul-matters but they each have a different meaning. Having connected the lyric and the book, it made hamin realized it’s indeed heavier than what he thought. Living in itself is not all fun and games, some days you may be really happy, while some time later there might be days when you feel like it’s really difficult to just get through it. The days when we feel nothing out of the ordinary might be the hardest days on someone else’s life. (continue down below)