Wonder of Nature

            Earlier this week, RM, the leader of BTS (a Korean boy band that’s currently gaining millions of fans in the U.S. and across the world) released a new mixtape. I saw the notification pop up on my phone during Anthropology and I barely stopped myself from running out of class to listen to it. During lunch, I was finally able to listen to the whole mixtape, and it was BEAUTIFUL. Every single track. I didn’t just like these songs, they sincerely moved me. What made this music so different? I realized that many of the tracks incorporated nature through sounds effects, imagery, and metaphors. One of the songs has the sound effect of rain for a solid ten seconds in the beginning, and even just listening to that somehow moved me. One of the most beautiful lyrics (from the track “Everythingoes”) translates to, “Like morning comes after night, if summer comes after spring/ Like berries bloom when flowers die, everything has to hurt/ I hold onto the world and take a deep breath, the hot air that fills my lungs says everything/ the long, painful, dull times I wanted to run away from are right there”. Beautiful.  

            I would say that nature is one of the few beautiful things that people never get tired of. We can see hundreds of rainbows and sunsets and feel the same swell in our hearts as we felt the first time. I think that nature is profound and even therapeutic in some ways. The lyrics above aren’t talking about beautiful things. They’re talking about the difficult, hopeless times in a stark manner, but as it is compared with nature, it somehow gives the lines an essence of hope. Nature is able to move people this much, even by just the mention of it in the lyrics of a song. It made me wonder how and why nature has this power. I still haven’t found an answer, and I think it makes sense. Something as wonder-filled and awe-striking as nature couldn’t possibly be explained easily.