It's one thing to have that vague notion-- it's another to look back on your life and think, WOW- there was a time when it was all about me and I totally didn't appreciate it or make the most of it!"
And this brings me to my feeling about Lin-Manuel Miranda...
And if my time is up, have I done enough?
(Why Hamilton is so great. There is so much of the universal in it, told through those specific stories.)
HOW did Lin write two great musicals?
What kind of a brain can do that? How did all that music get in there?
Which brings me back to my brain, which I can feel just isn't as flexible and agile as it was when I was, oh, 22, when I did what I think was my best writing.
Or was it just that I had a focus then? If I had the-- TIME!-- could I sit down and write similar things? Maybe I could. This is what LMM makes me wonder.
And back to that writing: I think I made the most of my time that I was able to. In fact, when I look back on college, I got SO MUCH done. I always credit that to the fact that I had no television, but it must have also been about my drive, and the fact that I was doing so much of what I love. Maybe that's the secret. If you're doing what you love, you can do a LOT.
I think that's about FOCUS.
Scratch that! This is not a moment, it's the movement!
As I'm writing this, I can see that these lines don't do all of what I want my words to do.
This is why handwriting matters. I suppose if I wrote this is Google Drawing, I could do more of what I want this to look like. Hmmm...
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