to ateez: it's been a little while since the performance was completed. as the emotions begin to finally settle, my thoughts seem so much more than i know how to convey to you properly. being able to see you perform live again through the stream, somehow my feelings have bloomed into a greater pride than when i watched you at coachella. each time, even though a screen and many miles separate us, you've shown proof of what my heart has known from the beginning; you and your beautiful light are the safe place i call home. when you surprised all of atiny tonight with your gift to us, through the tears, i saw the eight souls who have brought more light, more healing, more happiness than you'll ever know. even now, as i think of it while writing this, the tears have returned fully. i didn't know happiness could feel like this; but even as you've been teaching me what it is to be happy, to love myself, to believe in myself, with all of my heart i've been wishing the same to you. these moments over the past years, whether overcast with clouds or filled with the most radiant light, are precious and cherished precisely because they are shared with you. even now, even as you are still growing on your own paths, i still don't think you fully realize the power you hold; the full impact you have made in so many lives. it goes beyond yourselves as ateez. it's the genuine nature, the entirety of you; every step and word and decision you have made as you has left a lasting impression of someone who makes this world better, brighter, and more beautiful. thank you. whatever the next chapter has in store, for ateez and atiny, i hope that you step forward into it with greater confidence. ateez wouldn't be ateez without atiny, but we wouldn't be atiny without you. that itself is proof of the love and faith that was planted with care all those years ago and now grows as strong and steady as a redwood tree. lasting, enduring through any obstacle, thriving with the care that is the mutual bond ateez and atiny share. what you create within yourselves and gift to yourselves and to us is a treasure that nothing else can match. so please, as you plan the next part of our voyage, cherish yourselves, give yourselves the same love that you give to all of us. believe in yourselves, in the art you are creating in every universe within every heart. i am endlessly proud, once more and always, to be your atiny. thank you for being my ateez who are my greatest treasure. may every blessing reach you, may hope kindle the fire within each of you. may faith ever and always be your wings, and may love be your guiding light. all the best to you who will always be the best to me. rest well now, take good care of you. you've done so much more than merely well. may the future be bright, and may every memory be just as precious. i love you all so, so very much. 🫶🏻💚🎶🐦☀️🌕✨️🍀☘️🫂🌻🙏🏻 -ari #ateez #에이티즈 #hongjoong #홍중 #seonghwa #성화 #yunho #윤호 #yeosang #여상 #san #산 #mingi #민기 #wooyoung #우영 #jongho #종호 #larknotes