[TRANS] To EXO's antis.

I don't know what reasons you have
Maybe you thought they are not talented enough
Maybe you thought they took away your idols' popularity

kk
I shall not prove to you now
How ridiculous these "reasons" are

However
Regardless of your age, be it that you are older or younger than them
Try to recall or imagine...

WHEN YOU WERE 17
Were you alone, pursuing your dreams in a foreign country, battling loneliness and thoughts of missing home?

Will you practise dancing until the extent that you are betting your life on it every day? Only realising it when it is midnight?

Have you, not dared to call your mum, because you were afraid that you might not be able to hold it in and cry?

WHEN YOU WERE 18
Will you work and continue with your studies at the same time, and be able to maintain good results?

Have you tried putting your all for five years, with a body full of injuries?

WHEN YOU WERE 19
Will you, after undergoing all sorts of hardships, leave behind aggrieved yearnings or tears of gratitude?

WHEN YOU WERE 20
Have you insisted to continue working when your most fragile organ-eyes were hurt?

WHEN YOU WERE 21
Will you, in the midst of unbearable pain, still not forget about completing your task?

WHEN YOU WERE 22
Have you, because you have experienced things of all sorts, tear at the moment when you received affirmation?

Are you able to be humble, polite and modest anytime, anywhere?

Are you able to keep your smile anytime, anywhere?

If your answer is no,
then
Please shut up.

Every person who has a dream, is worth of receiving affirmation.
Every person who is willing to work hard, is worth of following.

They are not cloned products, neither are they substitutes.
I can understand that you may dislike them, but I can never tolerate denial.
I can accept that you are not supporting them, but I can never tolerate insults.

But I still have to thank you all
To be able to withstand insults, makes you someone who is worthy of praises.
The number of obstacles you create for us, we are able to translate this into LOVE that is a thousand, million times bigger.

I don't know how long you will continue to hate
But I dare to bet, that we will protect and guard them, longer than you anti them.

Because
They strive hard, they care
They work hard, they are humble.
Their perseverence, and the fact that they accomplished what I couldn't do. Something called a dream.

So they are worth it.
So I am willing.
To stand by them.
To stand by us.

The only and only EXO.

by: my_deerdeer
trans by: @exonyeoshidae