Humans live in a made up reality. Our sole existance is based on lies whispered to us by motivational speakers on tv, supporting parents and caring friends, all claiming that the one standing above everything else is you, that anything can be achieved with effort. They tell you that life is what you make of it, that you just have to get back up on the horse.

You grow up with those words ghosting around in your mind, making you believe that the neighbor's spoiled daughter is the next president and that your best friend will walk the moon, even though he's in a wheel chair and since long forgotten by society. You believe it when your teacher says you can become anything you want, and you come home happily grinning, showing your mom a drawing of a cowboy.

Nobody ever tells you that you can't. They all smile, your cheek and tell you how amazing it is, silently waiting for you to discover disappointment and failure on your own, and be there with a shoulder to cry on when your dreams come crushing down on you.

Yeah, humans are foolish like that. We like to believe that we live in a world that follows our own rules, that if we work hard enough, we'll get what we yearn for. In the end, it's all just a fog of irrelevant wishes and wants, a drug we're slowly getting addicted to. We don't realize it, until reality's knocked into us by force and we end up in mediocrity, patiently waiting for everyone else to join us.

Kim Kibum wanted to be everything; a president, a chef, an artist, a painter. He wanted to travel the world, maybe as a pilot?, and see all the great things various countries had to offer. He wanted to become rich and buy his mother a nice house with a big garden, and he wanted to ask that cute girl out for icecream after school. He wanted to be popular, be good at sports, wanted to be a good son. And in the midst of all this, never once did it cross his mind that it might just not happen, because every dream was so quickly replaced by another one that he didn't have time to reflect and feel sorrow for the plans that never happened. And never once did he think, none of them would. 

Because nobody ever told Kibum, that life is what happens while your busy making other plans.