Thoughts on a cliche
Sep. 4th, 2009 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vincentursusBeing a super heroine sucks some days.
I mean being super strong, invulnerable, able to fly and really good looking is nice, but that cliche is true you know? Great power, great responsibilities.
Some days, the good days, I can just fly in, grab the bad guys and drop them off in police custody. I love days like that.
Today was not one of those days.
Today I wrapped myself around an eight-year old girl to protect her against a heat-ray that some super villain was firing. I saved her life.
But I saved it at the cost of the sound of her mother and older brother screaming briefly as they boiled alive. I could only save one of them, and I had to choose.
It is terrible to have to make choices like that. But I know that every day there are ordinary people who make choices like that. Really they're not ordinary people, they're extraordinary people without super powers. Reminding myself that there are people like that in world helps me keep going.
I mean being super strong, invulnerable, able to fly and really good looking is nice, but that cliche is true you know? Great power, great responsibilities.
Some days, the good days, I can just fly in, grab the bad guys and drop them off in police custody. I love days like that.
Today was not one of those days.
Today I wrapped myself around an eight-year old girl to protect her against a heat-ray that some super villain was firing. I saved her life.
But I saved it at the cost of the sound of her mother and older brother screaming briefly as they boiled alive. I could only save one of them, and I had to choose.
It is terrible to have to make choices like that. But I know that every day there are ordinary people who make choices like that. Really they're not ordinary people, they're extraordinary people without super powers. Reminding myself that there are people like that in world helps me keep going.
