I am Superman

While it is obvious one is not so, it still has a nice ring to it. Nevertheless, being superman, or playing “God”, it’s a powerful experience, but a limited one in a sense: You can control, but can you really control?

Have you ever thought, “would to God, that I had all the money in the world”, or something equally impossible or unlikely? Most would say yes. Despite the things that we wish for, most of them have lasting consequences, or just severe limitations.

Let’s say you have one wish and your environmentalist or something like that, and you wish that all the pollution in the world goes away. Although sounding nice, it really isn’t, because the change is a sudden change. It’s an unnatural change without the lasting steps of real change.

Furthermore, due to a change like that, you might find that pollution actually gets worse instead of better. Due to the severity of the change and without the steps to make it solid, you might find the change is not lasting. In addition, since suddenly people find all the pollution gone in the world, people would stop caring, because it’s no longer an issue.

While you might not be an environmentalist, you can see that wishes or magic happenings, don’t really work out always. Despite receiving superpowers, or even if you had the God ability to change things, it won’t necessarily work. The reason so is that without the sacrifice or slow change that has to happen it won’t work.

Take for instance world war 1 and 2. Do you think we would have the peace or the longing for peace, if we hadn’t had so many dead? What if no one died in those wars? We would probably say that war isn’t so bad, so we would have more, because there is no consequences or horror.

Similarly if you had all the money in the world, but you had a bad spending habit, and that’s why you wish you had all the money in the world, your still going to be as before as you were. However, most likely it might take you a while to spend everything, but you would still find that you would still end up the same: Wishing for more money.

There’s nothing wrong with the impossible things or them happening. However, most of the things that we wish for, are just pies in the sky. Furthermore, if we had the ability to grant our problems to go away, we might just find the problem remains, because without the consequences or real need to change, nothing happens. 

Sometimes dealing with things naturally and slowly is the only way to deal with things. If you introduce a magic formula to get rid of things, the problem still remains, because there will always be the human factor. You can change the world in one day and get rid of all the problems, but you cannot quickly change the humans. Maybe sometimes, but not all the time.

So even if I was superman or you were superman and we had the ability to change everything. We cannot, because superman can only change things, not people. If we are to experience real change, it has to be without magic, but instead a solid foundation of working to a real lasting change.