R.a.c.h.e.l Toyer

I was asked a few days ago the most random question ever.  If I had a superpower, what would it be?  Well I can’t fly, and I don’t have the best eye sight, I don’t have knives that come out of my hands, and I’m not capable of being invisible.  Is there still hope for me?  Thinking about the word superpower for just a second, the word suggests that there is a power that is more supreme than any force known to mankind.  Wait, I totally have one of those, two actually.

Forgiveness:  Hard to come by these days.  There is so much wrong being done, so much pain being inflicted.  The cycle of course is perpetuated when the wrong is turned into another wrong by those seeking vengeance and vindication.  Choices are a funny thing, we make choices everyday about the smallest things; why can’t forgiveness be a choice?  Well it is, and after all I’ve been through in recent years, I’ve learned that no matter what, the choices of others can’t really harm me unless I chose not to forgive them.  Resentment and bitterness only damage the hurt individual more.  So one of my superpowers, is the choice I make to forgive! It’s not flying or turning invisible, but it’s rare and unique, and that is really what superpowers are about.

Optimism: My second superpower would hands down be optimism.  I’ve always taken the ‘glass half full’ approach.  A very good friend taught me to rely on the motto, ‘when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.’  Maybe my optimism makes me too trusting, but thank goodness I have superpower number 1 to back me up.  I say again, too much bad in the world, confusion and chaos roam free, but there is always a brightside.  So not knives coming out of my hands, or the ability to see through walls, but the powers I have I chose to exercise to try to make the world a little brighter.

~ by rach on May 3, 2009.

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