Serenditpity the purest of love? Appreciation and discussion on love+ oneshot

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About

Serendipity is a solo sung by South Korean boy band BTS' Jimin.

It was released originally as an introductory song on September 8th, 2017, whose full length edition was released on the 24th of August the same year under Bit Hit (now Hybe Labels).

It was written by hitman bang and few others along with BTS' leader RM.

The song talks about Love and loving someone in a very sophisticated way.

This was produced by Slow rabbit.

The MV of this is 4 minutes and 37 seconds long.

While the song's title talks about accidental love, the song talks about how Jimin's and his lover's love was destined.

Why I love Serendipity

Serendipity is a song written about two lovers who met accidentally. BTS has composed and released many songs that have deep meaning and are soothing. Not only that but their songs makes the listener to want to jump with joy, at least that's the case with me. The hard metal, energetic songs are something BTS is very well known for, but apart from that, their melodies are something one would want to listen to even during the hardest of times. Epiphany by Jin, Euphoria by Jungkook, Singularity by V and now Serendipity by Jimin. Looking at these songs all talk about the love they share with their soulmates. Serendipity is one such song which has had a great impact on me. Ever since I listened to Serendipity the way lyrics have chosen and sung caught my attention. There are so many ways love could be described but penicillium, calico cat and solar eclipse were incredible ways to describe your lover with. The MV to top that was beautiful directed. Serendipity has a positive outlook and it clearly talks about how a person cannot be loved accidentally. It requires understanding and trust, the songs says, and love does take time which I think is true because we've all had seen our parents and the trust and understand they have built is what makes Serendipity appear more beautiful. In the song Jimin expresses his love towards his lover in the most simple yet different way. The song says how a person becomes one person's universe after having fallen in love which really is beautiful and true. I believe once a person starts loving someone everything changes and that is what is expressed in the song too, which adds up more to why I love this song.

Lyrics appreciation

Verse 1

~And this is no coincidence

just by just by my feeling

The whole world is different from yesterday~

The song begins with Jimin singing " and this was no coincidence" by which he means meeting this person in his life was not accidental but almost a decided destiny, which may not make sense because Serendipity means accidental or coincidence.

but Jimin says meeting this person was not accidental I can understand this so much because sometimes few things that happen are just decided, looking that way everything is decided, there nothing we can do about few things. This line has a positive and a negative side, one, he is without any chances of being away from the person because this love is accidental and two he can love this person with his whole heart because this was coincidental and it has changed his world.

Just with a feeling he can tell, this person was not just a coincidence, because his life has taken a complete turn. Things around him started to appear different and beau

tiful and he concluded the person's appearance in his life was no coincidence.

Talking about loved ones, there are many stuff that could happen to a person because of love,

1 You become happy once you start loving someone

2. Things around you start to change

3. You become happy, you start looking at the positive side of things

4. Positivity makes you love yourself more

5. On the whole love brings about a tremendous change in a person be it good or bad

love doesn't really have to mean the romantic attachment, rather its about the bond a person shares with their close ones.

verse 1 con..

~just, just with your joy

when you called me

I became your flower~

Further more, Jimin sings he is happy whenever this person called him with joy. As said before, love does change people. When we start loving someone we don't set boundaries to it, it just becomes unconditional to the point where you get happy whenever the said person is happy. Similarly he explains that whever this person was happy and sound, Jimin was happy too.

Here flower may mean his happiness because a bloomed flower means happiness and he says he became this person's flower :blossom: providing them with more happiness.

Flower symbolizes positivity, therefore he means for him impossible is also possible when this person calls him with joy.

I have many times wondered why we get happy when we are with our loved ones. I mean obviously it's 'loved ones' but what actually brings joy about being around those people.

That's because these people love us and we do too, love is a positive energy and it radiates positivity and happiness. Sometimes it so happens that we are just glad about being around this person but don't actually know why, well that doesn't have any detailed answer but love.

verse 1 con..

~as if we were waiting

we bloom until we ache

maybe it's the providence of the universe~

Previously Jimin sung he became this person's flower by just loving them, here he continues that the both of them bloom, that is the both of them laugh, have fun and love each other to no extent where their stomach starts to hurt or they become tired. He means this is almost as if they had been waiting to meet each other, its like they knew they were going to meet even though he claims none of this is a coincidence.

Everything must have an end, so should love, but does it really? When we love someone we give our everything into loving that person and that's also the reason why it hurts when the person will have to leave at one time. But we just don't care, we love a person until one of us gets hurt, one of us leaves or we just keep loving.

On, the other hand when we love someone sometimes the feeling is not reciprocated and that hurts. Sometimes we don't care if it is reciprocated or not we just keep doing our thing.

Further, he continues "its the providence of the universe" meaning, he doesn't really know how love works but he loves and he thinks love just works this way because the universe is this way. The both of them love each other to their content, have fun until they are tired and Jimin thinks that is because the universe works that way.

On the other hand this has a contrary meaning to it. Providance also means destiny, it's somehow these two people were brought together and it's not a coincidence. It's fate. "it just had be that" meaning, nothing can change love it is the way it is.

verse 1 con..

~It just had to be that

you know, I know

you are me, I am you~

previously, Jimin concludes that all this is fate and the love is not accidental, so he again continues by saying "it just had to be that" meaning it's fate and love is something divine so it is the way it is.

which is so true because we don't have a specific way or will to love someone. Love has its own path and we just go along it.

further he says they both know each other and resemble one another more and that Jimin calls true love. He says what him and his soulmate share is true love, and there he says what the both of them share is true love.

Here he's trying to say when two people love each other they resemble each other a lot and know a lot about each other.

Either way this line is my favorite part of the song. You are me, I am you.

chorus

~As much as much heart flutters,I'm worried

the destiny is jealous of us

just like you I'm scared~

This is my favorite because it talks about reality. As much as we love someone, we are worried about losing that person. Even when things go well, something worries us. We worry about losing the other. He says he's worried that even the destiny is jealous of their bond and would pull them apart.

Be it love or just a thing we own, we are worried about losing it because it's close to our heart. It's only nature that we worry about losing our valuable thing or person.

We worry so much that it starts bringing controversies and misunderstandings. But Jiminy says he worries about losing that person because even the destiny seems jealous.

chorus con..

~when you see me when you touch me

the universe has moved for us

without missing a single thing

our happiness was meant to be

because you love me, I love you~

further Jimin talks about the love him and his soulmate share. He says the universe has moved for them, on the of their love. While this line is sung, solar eclipse is used to emphasis this line. He's trying to say the love he shares with his love is as beautiful as the sun and the moon during solar eclipse.

He tries to emphasis how happy he is even when things change because he loves this person and the person loves him back. On and all he tries to say regardless of the changes love might bring, he is still happy and glad that he loves this person.

as I've said before, love brings changes but since it's love, we just don't care. That is because we are just blind when we start loving, until one day we sit, realise and think about the changes love has brought upon us. On the second note, we don't care about the changes as long as we have the person we love, beside us.

Verse 2

~You are my penicillium,saving me savin me

my angel my world

I'm your calico cat, here to see you

love me now, touch me now~

pencillin was a drug that saved many lives in the world War ll. Here penicillium is used to refer how much of a significant person his soulmate is. Well, our loved ones do save us sometimes. The presence of the person we love is more than just comforting during times of misery.

Similarly Jimin is saying this person is his penicillium by helping him though his tough times, being there for him.

When we love someone we expect them to be there for us and their helping hand is what we look for. We think the moral of a person we love is more than enough to get us through the hardest of things.

And its no wonder he calls this person his world and his angel, he says this person he loves has been there for him, helping him through becoming his world and his angel for whom he would do anything.

By calling his love a calico cat he emphasizes that person he loves is rare and unique in his eyes. Touch and hugs resemble love the most, therefore he wants his love to touch him, hug him and love him more.

We all think the person we love is unique and that is only true because that's how much we love them. And it is true that everyone is unique. No matter what we want to hug, kiss and hold the person we love forever.

Refrain

~just let me love you

just let me love you

since the creation of the universe

everything was destined

just let me love you~

Here all he asks to this person is to let him love them. Just let him love them, shower them with love, take care of them and do nothing else.

sometimes we have this sudden will and want to shower the person with love and protect them. Sometimes it becomes a weakness and sometimes it's adorable.

Everything has been destined like how he said in the beginning, all this were never a coincidence but a decided destiny since when the universe was created. Therefore he just wants this person to let him love them.

Outro

~let me love you, let me love you

let me love you, let me love you~

On the whole he wants this person to let him love them, care for them and look after them.

We all want to love, cherish and care for the person close to our heart.

Overall apreciation

The song Serendipity talks about love and how love matters the most in a relationship. I think the lyrics are very well written and the words are beautifully chosen. This song has some deep meaning that hit hard. The vocals were so soft and amazing that could just sit and listen to it for days and not get bored at all.

It is really hard to express emotions through a soft metal song but I think Jimin has done an incredible job with the vocals. Dancing for a song like this is not something everyone would want to do. In other words it's difficult to dance for a song like this.

Personally I think Jimin has done a wonderful job in expressing his emotions through his dance which is very difficult in fact. Breathing control is very much required for when g songs like Serendipity, and singing while dancing requires huge talent and hard work. Personally I liked the choreography very much that I had learnt it once. The chorus part is my favourite. Throughout the whole song we can see how good is his breath control. Unlike their other songs this songs didn't need a lot of jumping and footwork, but we can see Jimin doing a lot of foot work in the song and during the chorus he jumps and it requires a lot of breath control considering the song.

Moving on with the MV, it was something beautifully recorded and edited. I personally think the scenes in the MV were highly deep and expressed the song in every way possible.

For instance here when Jimin sings the line "I became your flower" I believe he tries to prove worthy of his lover. Just when he sings the line we could see how the blood zooms in and into his universe and again zooms out of his eyes. It shows how much this person means to him and this person is his world.

Here right when he sings "the universe has moved for us'' we can see the solar eclipse in the MV. I believe he's trying to say how much rare and unique his love is. Solar eclipse is perfect and it could be that Jimin equates his love with the solar eclipse for being perfect.

When the lyrics "without missing a single thing, our love was meant to be" these scenarios take place. I appreciate how they'd thought to explain this through shanking and dropping thing. Jimin in this line tells how everything is the same and how he still smiles at the end even when things change after meeting this person.

Overall I believe this song has taken a lot of working and cooperation which makes it way more beautiful. Starting with Jimins vocals, dance, acting to direction, editing and lyrics.

Love, what is it?

Love is a bond we share with people close to our hearts. Be it romantic or just plainly innocent, we all need love. We just need it. But sometimes we want it too much it becomes toxic. Nobody can fall in love with a glance. There is no love at first sight. It takes trust and understanding to build a relationship and love a person. Trust, it requires trust to understand a person. Only if you trust a person will you be able to understand them. When people fall in love it is not just a meeting of day or two. It would have taken so much of trust, understanding and positivity to build it. Does love mean knowing about everything about this one person? Does it mean getting everything they need? Does it mean staying with that person everyday? Loves cannot be described, everyone had a de fire not way of expressing their love. People love is one of the most important emotions, yet it is still the least understood. We want everybody to understand us but we don't try to understand what. Sure we love the person close to our hearts, but anytime we look deeper the level of understand is comparatively low than the other emotions.

Love does require many emotions but understand the key to love. We say love is accidental but we have to know only meeting the person is accidental, love is only after getting to know them, with understanding and trust. Nothing comes without ups and downs and so is love, while love is a positive feeling, it associates with many more negatives but love outweighs. But when the negatives outweigh love it becomes toxic, which can always be settled with a little amount of talking and understanding.

On the other hand love is a wonderful feeling as everyone would say. Love can be felt many ways, through friendship, intimacy, infatuation. There are so many ways love can be felt. Love does have a huge impact on human. As in the song Serendtipity love changes one's way thinking, it helps people believe there is a person for them and that increases the level of positivity in their each day. The fact that we get to make someone happy makes us happy and that is what according to me is love.

on the simpler note love is contagious both in good and bad ways and it cannot be stopped as sung in songs.

Love, does it hurt?

When people fall in love, they don't set boundaries, they jus love to the fullest. There are just many ways love could hurt. One being the absence of our loved one. Second when it becomes toxic. I'll talk about toxic love first. Toxic starts with being possessive. Is starting to get possessive adorable? No, certainly not.

We get possessive over the things we own, and I certainly believe we don't get to own any one in this world. We are possible over our stuff because they cannot take care of themselves and they do not have any life. But people we love are humans and nobody likes to be owned or controlled by anyone. We start getting possessive when we believe the person is going to leave us, when we don't trust the person and the main key to love is trust and understanding which if not there negatives overpower the positive energy 'Love'. When we encourage possessiveness to be cute the relationship becomes more toxic than it is already. We fear the absence of our loved ones and therefore we tend to appreciate possessiveness. Possessiveness needs the trust in a relationship.

When trust is broken in a relationship it's is really hard to rebuild it because trust is fragile and since love is made of it, it is really hard to rebuild it. Trust is broken in many ways be it trough words, actions either way it hurts.

As I've said before, when we love someone we love them to no ends, and when it is time for the person to leave, it hurts. So we say love hurts. Nothing goes our way, and so is love. Sometimes our love is reciprocated and sometimes it is not and there it hurts. But we all know love shouldn't be forced and its be a genuine feeling which is brought upon and the fact that our love is only one sided and no matter what it is not going to be returned hurts us. When love is reciprocated we have a positive feeling and we keep enjoying it, it's only a matter of few seconds for it to turn hurtful when it's not reciprocated. On the other hand we tend to be more cautious around the person we love, and anything done too much cautiously may not be a success.

When we are in a relationship we expect the person to understand us and it is in human nature that we believe everything we do is right, similarly when we have misunderstandings we tend to speak out of our minds. We hurts each other with words and that hurts more than anything because we believe words speak our heart.

Purest of love

When I said love requires understanding I meant about knowing them, spending time with them and cherishing that person. The person we've known for the longest, the only person we've seen and been with during the hardest of times, the only person we've seen falling apart and piece in together to become a new versions, the only person we live with the whole day, the only person we eat, sleep, get to talk, cuddle, embrace, the only person we have a love hate relationship with, the only person we cuss at a lot, is ourselves. It's our inner self that we can do all this with. As BTS has said before love is initiated from within. Only if we loved yourself can we love others. If we loved ourselves we start to see the good side of things, everything seems possible because we believe in ourselves. Things change once we start loving ourselves. Self love is the key to all love and I believe it the purest of love.

Just a little longer

I can't deal with this anymore" he yelled before walking out of the room leaving behind his girlfriend.

It was 3 months ago since he had walked out on his girlfriend and they both decided to stay apart on good thinking it's for the best. He didn't know if he did right. He loved her.

So many misunderstandings, so many arguments, so many sacrifices, 2 and a half years of relationship, everything in vein in just one evening. He loved her so much even in those two years. But had they rushed? Sould they have given each other time before taking hasty decisions?

4 months ago, the night after the fight

"I cannot, with you being out all the time, I had moved in with you to live with you, not the walls" she snapped at him

"And you think I don't feel bad about it? I'm trying to make it better, I'm tired of you always complaining when I'm doing this for us." He tried to reason himself.

"Well then, you will not have to work for us anymore, there's no more us, you are tired of it anyway." That's what she she said before wiping her tears aggressively.

"well if you insist, I was thinking about that too. You were going to complain either way-" he started rudely only to be cut in.

"Lets not see each other anymore. Goodbye" that's what she had said before collecting her things and waking away.

Its been 4 months but he could all of it. He loved her so much. He still loves her. But never had the nerve to call her again and try once more.

His world changed, after she left things started to change, he felt empty, he thought he could get used to being welcomed with an empty house, but no. He can never forget her. She was his universe after all, his calico cat.

It is her birthday, he is sure she will visit this park. Or so he wishes. He wishes she will come. They spent her last birthday in the park after which everything started to change.

He looked at the park through the glass of the ice cream parlour. He re how excited he was to bring her to the park. The park near their newly moved house. How much fun they had, just the two of them. He still re how loudly she laughed when he slipped and fell down.

He re how much noisy they were disturbing everyone in the park. He re how she ate the whole cake refusing to give him one bite. He re all that happened that evening in the park. He swears he could still smell the cake that she smeared on his jacket, he wore it on her last birthday too. God he loves her so much.

How much he wishes he could spend this evening with her.

They promised to visit the park during each others' birthdays. She will come too..

right?

"What's so beautiful you're starting at?" It took all in her to talk to him. Her heart hammering in her rib cage. He never responded. She's so nervous, she doesn't know why she approached him, maybe it was a bad idea to begin with. She should probably go.

He swears his heart stopped for a minute. He's just so nervous. Never in a million times did he think his instinct would be correct. He just turns around to look at her. She stood there with her ice cream in her hand.

Angels bless him, she's very beautiful.

"umm.. Your ice cream, it's melting" She laughed out pointing at his ice cream.

"oh yeah, sorry"

a long silence before-

"you- you are looking good" he said trying to ease the tension. But it's true that she's really beautiful.

"Thanks! You're handsome yourself too" she replied taking a seat infront of him.

"So how have you been?" She was the first one to break the silence.

"I've been better, what about you?" He replied trying to build the conversation. She only gave him a nod.

"You've cut your hair" he said before adding,

"its beautiful" god this was much more difficult than the break up.

"Thanks, I uh, I wanted to have a change so yeah, you have grown some beard too, looking mature for once." she replied with a small smile adorning her face.

He couldn't help but smile sheepishly. Maybe it really was a bad idea to break up with her. God how much he wishes he could turn time and hug her and let her know he was going to make it better.

so what's new with you?" she asked now eating her ice cream.

"Nothing new just some new project I'm working on hoping it's going to turn out better. Last few were failures" He suddenly could feel his heart hammering again. He was sharing stuff with her again, after so many days, he's talking to her and she's listening.

"You'll do fine, you've always been a hard worker. It will turn out good don't worry." She assured him with a smile, ice cream smeared over her lips. Being with her just lights up his day, God he should stop iring her. But he couldn't help but blame about how he never made any effort in their relationship.

"please eat your ice cream, I feel bad, I'm the only one eating" she tried to make him feel better with a small pout on her lips.

"ahh yeah, no I mean- I'll just eat it" he stutters like an idiot before stuffing a spoonful of ice cream into his mouth for which she laughed out loud.

"you're malfunctioning" She speaks between laughter, "common You don't have to be this nervous" shoot she thinks as soon as she says that. Why did she have to say that? Now it's going to become more awkward.

"right yeah, I don't know" he smiles.

neither of them speaks until

"listen I'm sorry about-" he begins

"no, no it took a lot in me to move on and I'm still trying to so, stop apologising and giving me more reason not to move on. I don't know what I'm talking about but no apologies please. I want the air to be cheerful" She quickly speaks her mind out and he doesn't know what to say.

He could feel his heart sinking when she talks about moving on but he can't blame her, "right okay but I'm really sorry though" he speaks out his mind too.

"okay now I'm leaving" she quickly stands up with a glare, preparing to leaving when he suddenly grabs her wrist,

"please stay, just a little longer"

She looks at him with squinted eyes before sitting back on her chair.

"Alright but you but only if you wished me happy birthday"

"oh right, happy birthday. I don't have anything I'll buy you an ice cream thoguh" He blurted out before standing up to get one.

"stop, I have one, you don't have to get me anything. Just sit" she laughs and his hearts beats faster. "by the way I'm sorry too" she laughs out before both of them start laughing out loudly earning looks just like they did during her last birthday.

They both have their ice creams, he gets her one too, he keeps looking at her while she talks, his ice cream long forgotten. He might have been her past, her past universe, her calico cat, but the thing is for him she still is his universe and calico cat. Love hurts, it does but he loves it.

Outro

That is it everyone, thank you for looking through my blog. I had so much fun making the blog and hope you did too. I truly hope I was able to put my points across clearly through the blog. Have a great day :purple_heart:

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