#THE SPRING DAYS OF MY LIFE SERIES#

The rest of the members take their own path to boarding the train, each bringing their own baggage with them. Ultimately though, it is Jungkook who runs back to Omelas to gather the members before boarding the train a second time. In a way he is returning to round up the rest of the members, but his return also shows the struggle between moving forward and lingering in the past. Yet, he is the one who first sees the need to move away from his youth. He is soon followed by Rap Monster, who walks through the cars of the train before returning to the Omelas hotel. He’s always been the one most reluctant to mature, most afraid of what the future holds. Surprisingly, it is the youngest member, Jungkook who chooses to board the train away from Omelas first.

#THE SPRING DAYS OF MY LIFE SERIES#

The Most Beautiful Moment in Life Series has centered around the journey into adulthood, with each member facing their own fears and insecurities along the way. But much like the sparkler and match they hold to the impending darkness, even the brightest of moments eventually burn out. In the story, some residents choose to walk away from the false paradise to face a new world of uncertainty head on: in the MV we watch BTS finally choose to leave their youth behind and move forward into the future by boarding the train to spring. The Omelas hotel room is the center of the member’s nostalgia, the false utopia they have trapped themselves within in order to preserve the bliss of youth forever. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” As DreamTeller theorized, the city of Omelas - as well as the hotel room in the MV - stand as a false utopia: a place where everyone is perpetually happy and carefree, but under the surface, one child must suffer in order to maintain the balance. And in true BTS fashion, they’ve managed to pull out some obscure literary references to tie into the plot of “Spring Day.” The most notable of which is the inclusion of the Omelas Hotel, in reference to the short story by Ursula K. This is where the group bids goodbye to the concept - and their youth - in a truly beautiful way.įollowing a frigid winter of teen angst and uncertainty, spring comes as a new beginning the landscape begins to fill with new life, and new stories begin. Some may say that “Spring Day” falls outside of the Most Beautiful Moment in Life Series, but I see it as a conclusion to the series a moment of closure and reprieve before the group continues onward. To me, the MV for “Spring Day” serves as a final wind-up of the narrative of loss and growing up that we’ve seen through the rest of the Most Beautiful Moment in Life series. We’ve watched them be young delinquents in “ Fire” and “ Run,” experience loss and violence in “ I Need You,” and grow as artists in “ Blood, Sweat and Tears.” Through all the sub-plots of Most Beautiful Moment in Life, there has been one constant theme: the tight bond between the members all on the cusp of adulthood. With BTS slowly growing up through this string of releases, comes the appropriate follow up to their tale in the form of the special album Wings: You Never Walk Alone, and its single “Spring Day. It’s been a wild ride as BTS released their Most Beautiful Moment in Life (HYYH) series over the course of the past two years.

The spring days of my life