“Look around, look around at how lucky we are
To be alive right now
Look at where you are. Look at where you started
The fact that you’re alive is a miracle
Just stay alive, that would be enough
I don’t pretend to know the challenges you’re facing
The worlds you keep erasing and creating in your mind
But I’m not afraid
I know who I married
So long as you come home at the end of the day
That would be enough
We don’t need a legacy
We don’t need money
If I could grant you peace of mind
If you could let me inside your heart
Oh, let me be a part of the narrative
In the story, they will write someday
Let this moment be the first chapter
Where you decide to stay”
– Hamilton
It is funny that there will always be a song that speaks to you at a juncture of your life. There are days when all you want is to leave and to erase all the worlds we have known behind.
There’s a reminder that how far you’ve come, of how much of a miracle to just being alive, right now.
And there’s a little reminder, that there is someone here, someone in your life when coming home would be enough.
That they would be enough.
That we could be enough.
That we don’t need a legacy, or money, or a narrative.
And then, when you put that in the context (of the musical Hamilton, of course), the person who leaves and who never stops and who never gives up on a legacy, built a legacy.
And that we might never be satisfied.
And we are back as restless as before.
Pace Fine Arts 