Lin-Manuel Miranda

This man is too good for this world.

If you don't know who Lin-Manuel Miranda is, let me explain you a thing. He is the writer, composer, and star of In the Heights and Hamilton. Two amazing musicals that, if you've never checked them out, you should. The soundtracks are on YouTube and on Spotify.

Here is my favorite song from Hamilton, "Dear Theodosia". Lin wrote it with his dog in mind. The first singer is the amazing, Leslie Odom Jr, who plays Aaron Burr in the musical and the second is Lin, who plays Alexander Hamilton.

This is my favorite song in the entire musical, because I think it's beautiful that both these new fathers are singing to their kids.

Lin-Manuel Miranda is someone who has semi been in my life longer than I've been obsessed with him.

In middle school, I used to watch this show with my little brother that I really liked. The show was called Electric Company. Lin would rap in a few episodes and he played a guy names Mario.  I really liked when he would rap in the episodes, but I never really cared who he was outside of Electric Company. But I had "Hard and Soft G" and "Silent E is a Ninja" stuck in my head for eternity. To this day I still remember them.

On top of Lin being in Electric Company, he did one of my favorite songs in Seasame Street. I didn't really like Seasame Street, at the time, but I watched it with my baby cousin at the time. My favorite skit at the time was Murray has a Little Lamb, or whatever it was called. Guess who did the theme song for that skit. Lin-Manuel Miranda. It was another song that was constantly stuck in my head.

Fast forward to my freshman year of college, I kept hearing about Hamilton non-stop because it was getting big. And it's a great musical. I haven't seen it, but from the few videos that exist, the book, and the soundtrack it's amazing. But I only really knew Lin as the guy from Electric Company. I kept having Hamilton in the back of my mind to listen to the soundtrack, but I didn't listen until Andrew Chappelle came into my life.

Andrew is an ensemble member and swing. He's he understudy for Laurens/Phillip and Lafayette/Jefferson. I followed him on Instagram, I'm not sure why, but I'm glad I did follow him because I saw pictures of him and Jonathan Goff (who I love from Glee) from when the Hamilton cast performed at the White House, and that caught my attention.

Here is Andrew dressed as Lafayette

And if it wasn't for Andrew Chappelle, I still would never have listened to the Hamilton soundtrack and fallen in love with Lin-Manuel Miranda's work.

I fell in love with Hamilton before I fell in love with In the Heights, but both are amazing. The entire cast of both are amazing. I will most likely be writing a blog post for both musicals and some actors in the musical.

But anyway. This post is about Lin, not his musicals. I'll save my praise for those blog posts.

He is just an amazing person.

Lin-Manuel Miranda it the most inspirational person I have ever had an obsession over. This is a man who wrote his first musical when he was 22 years old and still in college. He inspires me everyday. I am amazed by this man.

I love and appreciate this man so much, I cannot put it into words. I really can't. I wish I could so he could know what he means to me, but words do no exist. Words cannot explain feelings.

And it's not another "I love him so much it hurts". I genuinely appreciate him. I am so glad I finally listened to Hamilton and learned about hi life.

Honestly, towards the end of my second semester of my freshman year of college, I was thinking about not coming back. I was going to go home and go to community college and change my major. I was going to give up. But Lin-Manuel Miranda inspired me to keep going. Because of him I will continue going to college.

I am now double majoring in history and in theater. I will pass my classes and finish college. I want to be a teacher and maybe one day run my own museum. Maybe even finish and publish a book. And if it wasn't for Mario from Electric Company coming back into my life after 5(ish) years, I would have given up on all of that.

Thank you, Lin. I know you'll never see this. And you'll probably never know how much you actually mean to me, but thank you so much.

But it's not just because he inspires me that I love and appreciate him.

This man is too good for the world. Like listening to his voice, whether he's singing, rapping, or talking makes me so calm. There's something soothing about his voice. I don't know what it is.

The way I explained it to my friend was his voice is like a goodness and my brain can't handle it because of how miserable and lost I've been for the past seven years. Almost like he's healing all the emotional damages with his voice. His voice makes me feel safe. I compared his voice to an emotional hug. And not just any hug. A hug from someone you love that makes you feel like you belong somewhere.

He makes me so happy. I really want him to know how much he's been an inspiration to me and I want him to know that he is such a good person and he deserves the world and everything good.

Lin-Manuel Miranda's existence reassures me that everything is going to be. No matter how bad things will get, it will always get better. He gives me hope for the future.

This post is getting long, but I can literally write pages about him and how much I appreciate him. And I have. I have a whole folder on my phone's notepad labeled "FEEELSSSS" and it's just full of my feelings about this amazing human being.

I have a lot more to say, but I'll end it here!

ALSO! I added my social medias and my emails in case any of you wanted to contact me. I don't know why you would want to,but they are there just in case.

Here is the final song of In the Heights: