How is time a motif in Alexander Hamilton?

Throughout the musical, Hamilton tries to make the most out of every minute of his life. Burr asks Hamilton why he writes like he is running out of time. Hamilton works ridiculously hard, with an almost obsessive work ethic. Since Hamilton dies at the end of the musical, he literally is running out of time. At the end of the musical, we learn that Eliza lives another fifty years after Hamilton’s death. She also uses that time the best she can, trying to accomplish as much as Hamilton would have, but she admits that he would have been able to do much more. Throughout the musical, characters refer to time and the inevitability of change.