Hi, I’m Tida and a labyrinth builder. If you’re here, you saw me building a collection of flower labyrinths I call, “My Oasis Moment.”

BTS frequently showed up in my life at the time my parents were getting really sick. I didn’t know BTS were there to support me, and I ignored their call. It wasn’t until after my parents died in 2019 that I came to understand.

In my deadened, lightless abyss of grief, they made me laugh again. At first, it was strange to hear the laughter come out from my mouth. As I kept laughing, the feeling of the laughter rising from my belly, traveling up, up and out was disorienting…and the sound was strange after so long of so much NOT. I was smiling ear to ear and my face hurt from it. But my heart found something to grasp and it grew again a little that day.

As I learned more, their music was the only thing that could soothe me. In my grief, I was a raw walking nerve and couldn’t regulate my nervous system. Everything both hurt AND felt numb. But their music was a salve and still calms me when everything else is going crazy. That’s an oasis moment.

Thanks to BTS, their music helps me create my oasis moment.