Fandango‘s 69th provocative question is:
Assume you are a real-life superhero. What is your super power? What is the largest obstacle to using your super power?
The Girl drew this sweet picture when she was around 8 years old. Until she presented it to me, I never thought of myself as a hero of any kind; I was just a man struggling to be a nurturing and effective husband, father, probation officer, son, brother, nephew, neighbor, and friend. And often, I believed, falling far short of the mark.
In the years since, I have learned to judge my efforts less harshly and to give myself credit for having improved in all those areas thanks in large part to the tolerance, care, and patient guidance of The Boss.
Indulging, for a few moments, the fantasy that I could be perceived of as a real-life superhero, I reckon my real-life superpowers are empathy and the ability rapidly to consider circumstances, events, and ideas from multiple angles before taking any decisive action. Owing to these qualities, I strive daily to treat every person I encounter with kindness, compassion, and respect. Also, I have an uncanny ability to keep my cool in a crisis.
The largest obstacle to using my superpowers, my kryptonite, if you will, is my mere humanness. I have long since conquered the raging temper that dominated my early- to mid-twenties and that caused me to hurt a lot of undeserving people in some truly despicable ways, but I still commit too-frequent errors in judgment that keep me from being as good, as kind, as I aspire to be.
Who among us can’t say the same? What do you imagine your superpowers are, and what keeps you from using them?
I’m grateful to Fandango for inspiring me to reflect this morning. I hope y’all will check out his excellent blog if you haven’t already.
Y’all have a great weekend filled with sunshine and laughter.
Take care, be well, and relax!
Love,
Denny♥
My super power would be spreading kindness.
My kryptonite would be all the crazy and nasty bigots in the world. I feel that they are immune to kindness.
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And logic.
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Yes, I think your right there.
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My superpower? Oddly enough, I think they are patience and humor. Interesting how we grow up. 🙂
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“ Who among us can’t say the same?” Donald Trump, for one. He will never admit to making errors, or using bad judgement.
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Agreed, but my rhetorical question was directed more toward our wonderful WordPress community.
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You’re a great dad, and I love the details your daughter captured of your face in her drawing. Hmm … let’s see, my superpowers are eating Tostitos at a record pace. What stops me from using them – I gave them up and haven’t had one single one since. I did switch to Siete chips though – I’m working on building my superpowers back up.
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Good luck, Shelley. It’s good to hear from you. Seems like both of us have been posting a bit less lately. I hope you & yours are holding up alright!
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Thank you, Denny. It’s good to hear from you too. Yes, I’ve had a rough round the last few months, family issues, then the whole stay-at-home stuff and rental issues, etc. We’re holding up alright, I hope you and yours are as well!
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Awww that’s such a sweet drawing/letter. It’s hard to decide on a super power. I think I’d enjoy being invisible or perhaps flying!
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I can’t say I’m surprised that you’re in a cool in a crisis, I can picture you as a calm and controlled spectator and participator in court, 100%.
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My wonderfully weird superpower is crowd management and shifting the demand to one we can supply (aka sales!).
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