Did I think a gold medal was a participation trophy you could get by doing just a little well?
Ugly, and my attitude was even worse,
Do I even have any manners?
Will I be thirty and laughing at the way I used to be?
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Ready to turn twenty?
I don’t think I was particularly ready.
I wasn’t even prepared, yet
all you have to do is let time pass to become twenty.
I hadn’t even gotten to enjoy being twenty,
and already several months have gone by?
My friends who are the same age as me, whether by text or in person,
college, getting a job, retaking the entrance exam...
It’s all just stories about a world I don’t know.
I went back to my old neighborhood for the first time in a while,
and the playground that used to seem so huge when I was little
had shrunk to something hardly worth mentioning.
Honestly, even the usual nagging from my mother telling me to clean my room
is starting to feel nostalgic.
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I’m only hurting.
It’s only painful.
But why does everyone keep saying this is the best time of my life...?
I was only as big as a grain of rice, and now I’ve just
grown to about the size of an egg...
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Life is all the same, it’s all the same everywhere.
People say, ‘What does a kid your age know?’
Yeah, I don’t know.
Some say they’re as grown as they’re ever going to be, and some say they’re jealous of my age,
who am I supposed to listen to?
In elementary school, it was nice because all I had to do was dream.
In high school, even if I got knocked around here and there, it was fine as long as I was with my friends,
and now my newly turned twenty is supposed to be youth, right?
Why doesn’t it feel like it?
...Adults talking?
So what?
I’m going to live my youth however I want.
What else can I do?
Who’s going to stop twenty?
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Ugly twenty.
Twenty with no manners.
Shining twenty.
...Twenty. Maybe it isn’t so bad.
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You may not know, but I’m a Dive too. (But it’s almost like a secondary bias for me...)
I was debating whether to write it as Eunhak, but I thought of Iseo at twenty, so I’m going with Iseo.
I hope Iseo is spending a pretty twenty with the older sisters in the group—Glory Twenty~
It’s the twentieth episode, and the song is twenty too!!
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