Junsu's Essay to Fans

Translated by Jimmie 

Source: jyj3.wordpress.com

This was originally posted as a comment in JYJ3 blog's post about their opinion with the continuous problem JYJ is experiencing with SM. I'd like to thank Jimmie for translating Junsu's essay to English. After reading this it shows how much JYJ appreciates their fans' support and the only way for them to survive this is if we keep supporting them through their struggles. Let's keep fighting for them and give them strength! ^_^

Hi friends
Will you listen to our story?

We were kids with lots of dreams.
We really loved singing
And we genuinely wanted to
meet many friends through our songs.

Through all the white nights in the recording studio that we spent drenched in sweat and all that practice
There were people by our sides who struggled alongside us like family
And we made lots of friends.

Finally we were able to see with our eyes and touch with our hands
the fruits of all that blood and sweat.

Taking care that our actions wouldn’t hurt the hearts of our family
we acted even more carefully and followed every word they said.

Our family always told us,
Don’t let your gaze wander to the outside world, and stop your ears to its sounds.
That all is selfishness, all are lies.

Then one day
we found out so many truths.
As boys in men’s bodies we were so confused
and we couldn’t stop the ever-building anger inside us.

We had become adults before we were even aware of it.
Although we were told not to look to the outside world we saw, though we were told not to hear we listened.
We were of the age to differentiate between truths and lies.

The people we had thought of as family
suddenly revealed themselves to not be the family we thought of.

Our hearts were bruised and our minds became diseased.
We couldn’t trust anyone
We had twisted into things beyond our imagination.

We had changed, lost dreams,
we finally saw that for ourselves.

The place we have to be at is not here.

There must be a brighter and wider world out there.
If there isn’t, we’ll make that place with our songs.

We divested ourselves of the ‘family that is not family’
and sought to take on new companions.

Companions who could save our dreams
and heal the scars on our souls.

We are in the process of meeting those companions.
Our friends became our family
And we suddenly had a new, overflowing family.

Although those who used to be family turned their backs
With the help of our new family
we were able to sing again.
The day I was able to sing again 

I couldn’t stop the tears.

I became overtaken with the desire to write and sing songs again. 

At the moment we are only able to meet our family through the stage
but our hearts are filled with love for them.

I know now,
That there is a world where one can love another, can trust another
and have the hope to dream.

Our current family is filled with love and faith
And so our story will continue.

You’ll stick around to hear our story, right!