“For someone, compassion may mean a beer and some loud friends, and for another it may be in a hotel suite, staring out the window as the city falls asleep. Their similarities? They both find comfort within their boundaries. Within what they’re used to seeing, and how they’re used to feeling. Now who’s to say which person’s way is more compassionate?”
Because familiarity is comfort. It’s natural and instinctive to fill in the gaps with things we have known before. The way Colin writes about people coming and going to the hotel just by looking at how they dress and hearing two sentences at the reception desk. The way January doesn’t visit the city much because of its murmurs.
It’s reassuring to follow the safe and familiar paths, but it’s definitely not the optimal way to find solutions. The world is changing every day: new people, new perspectives, new incidents, new outcomes. The fragrance of life is subtly kept in the gap between people’s presumptions and what is really happening. The answers are sometimes just among the things you don’t know and the things you thought you knew.
January Sun is the second original musical by FRAGMENTS. This piece is dedicated to exploring one of the significant themes of the musical.