"If I were orpheus I wouldn't look back"
But we look back everyday- rechecking emails, making sure a friend is still behind you, checking to see if you remebered to pick up your keys. It's second nature, a habit of care.
It was second nature for him too. He looked back, not out of weakness, but love. For what is love, if not to look back?
I went to see Hadestown in London last week with a pack of my best friends and on the escalator leaving the underground I, without thinking, looked back to check all my loved ones were still with me, and fully started sobbing when I realised what I'd just done.
















