Filthy Casual for Life

prompts for october 2026

@justrojie asks us to, “Post a picture/video/etc. of something inspiring.”

Inspire: To fill someone with the confidence, desire, or ability to do, create, or feel something.

As always, I turn to BTS, because they always inspire me. There is one song in particular.

“Mikrokosmos”

Every. Single. Time.

I listen to this song every morning on the way to work. Every morning. It fills me with confidence and the desire to do something great every day. It fills me with happiness. It reminds me that I am not alone in the world.

The lyrics translated from BTSLYRICTRANSLATIONS.COM

Sparkling starlights
Flickering lights in the lit buildings
We are shining
In each room, in each star (eh oh)

Some lights represent ambition
Some lights represent wandering
People’s lights
All of them are precious, each one
In the dark night
(don’t be lonely)
Just like stars
(we are shining)
Don’t disappear
Because you are significant
Let us shine

The reason why the night’s expression is so beautiful
Oh
is not because of the stars or the lights, but because of us

You got me
When I see you, I dream
I got you
In the pitch-black nights
We saw each other’s light
We were saying the same thing, we are
(oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh)
The starlight shining even brighter in the deepest night
(oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh)
The starlight shining even brighter in the deepest night
The deeper the night, the brighter the starlight

In one person, one history
In one person, one star
Shining with 7 billion lights
7 billion different worlds
7 billion different lives, the city’s nightscape
Perhaps the night of another city
Each of our own dreams, let us shine
You shine brighter than anyone else
One

The reason why the night’s expression is so beautiful
Oh
is not because of the darkness or the moonlight, but because of us

You got me
When I see you, I dream
I got you
In the pitch-black nights
We saw each other’s light
We were saying the same thing, we are
(oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh)
The starlight shining even brighter in the deepest night
(oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh)
The starlight shining even brighter in the deepest night
The deeper the night, the brighter the starlight

The city’s lights, this city’s stars
I remember the night sky I looked up to when I was young
In this very place filled with the light that is people, the stars that are people
We shinin’

You got me
When I look at you, I breathe
I got you
In the pitch-black nights

Shine, dream, smile (shine, yeah)
Oh, let us light up the night
(oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh)
We shine in our own way (oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh)
Shine, dream, smile
Oh, let us light up the night
We shine as we are
Tonight

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