“Just human”
When I was just a child, I had dreams of being superman. I always wanted to lift all the bags at once from when my mom went shopping thinking that this is super strength. I jumped from –relatively- great heights thinking that one day I’ll fly. I fell one day and had surgery so that was it for superman. But I didn’t stop believing I could be Spider-man, that way, I don’t need to jump so high or test my powers, I just have to climb and hope I have some kind of web coming out of my wrist. The first was easy but the second –to my surprise- didn’t work out so good –not to yours, or mine now. – so I tried my super speed, I was fast, I was thin so I was light and I had long legs so I was fast, but I couldn’t be faster than father and that’s how I realized I’m not faster than light or even sound so no sonic the hedgehog as well. By that time, animated TV-shows were not my only source of imagination, I’ve watched the batman on my TV earlier before but I have to tell you, the comics were so much cooler. So I went with batman, I sneaked in and out of the house when my parents were asleep –I got caught a few times but I had more success than failures- and I was mostly successful in covering my tracks and making traps around my rooms –mostly involving ropes that will make you fall if you enter- so the batman thing was going great, until I realized I can’t afford his gadgets.
Now, I’m a grown up guy with real struggles and real villains. I face life every day, and this time without any superpowers. I have no super speed, super strength or even a millions-of-dollars-worth super computer. I’m stuck with the “just me”, the “only human” and the “muggle” thing of course. I have no cape, I have no suit and I frankly... I don’t need them, why would I? I don’t have superpowers. The good news is… I don’t need even those.
I am only human, I am only one of the guys who rule earth now, who got mother nature to take a deep, deep nab as they do her work. I am the guy with a real super intelligence. Even the dumbest of us can do stuff that the most intelligent individual in any species can’t. I don’t have super strength, but I have enough to carry a bag or two for a tired woman, I don’t have super speed, but I have enough to go wherever I need to. I can’t climb walls, but I can knock on my friend’s door and it would still be fun.
What I’m trying to sell you here is your true power. We all need each other, and this only means –by definition- that we all can –somehow- help each other. What I’m trying to sell you here is your normal strength that will make the one you help SUPER happy, is your normal intelligence that will tell you that you should go to a friend and have some SUPER fun, is your normal speed that will get you to place where you will have some SUPER achievements. What I’m trying to sell you is simply, your moment, the one when your true powers emerge and you choose to save the world. Not by stopping doomsday or ending the zombie-apocalypse, but by showing the world that there’s still hope. Hope in humanity, hope in good, hope in redemption, hope in themselves. To save the world, one person at a time. By being nice to strangers and even to those who piss you off until you just hope you could give them the laser eye. By showing a downhearted how the world is still revolving, how he is not done yet and he will see it, he will see it if YOU are not done yet. Be their mirror but don’t show them their reflection, show them what they can be, WHO they can be. Show them that there is someone out there that is still trying to make a better world, show them there’s someone still fighting, show them there’s still someone who would rather burn for eternity than see the sky with no sun or moon to light it up in the darkest of times, show them that their dreams are not illusions of a utopian universe, but rather a call coming from deep down telling them that they can always be better, that they can always DO better. Be good, be a symbol of hope, be superman, be batman, be the flash, be whatever and whoever you want. But remember to always be… just human.
“Wearing a cape is optional”
