Most of us don't feel like it. Most of us don't know it yet
I read a story of a woman, author and activist, Yvonne Pointer, who has been going to prisons to speak for well over 20 years. She went with a deep vision of knowing the inner essence of the inmates. She starts by saying, "I came to tell each of you this: you are a hero." She says that the room goes silent. She continues, "there's a hero that lies within you; you've just got to take off all of that extra stuff. You're not rapists. You're not murderers. That's your disguise, the "stuff" you've put on. You've got to shed all those things that are not who you were born to be, and get to the person you truly are." She reminds them that Clark Kent had to take off his suit before he could be Superman. (From Marci Shimoff's book, Love for no Reason).
Yvonne is love and is a superhero. Her daughter had been brutally raped and murdered at age 14.
So, I won't be calling these posts superhero posts any longer. It's like saying human, or woman or man. We are all superheroes. Everyday is a superhero day. Let's all take off this armour, these damn disguises and just be these amazing beautiful beings.
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