I am sure that most of you have already seen the latest
version of Superman film called “Superman returns.”
In Superman returns, the eternal love of Superman, Luis
Laine, the reporter receives a Pulitzer’s award for her article called “Why the World doesn’t need Superman.”
It is obvious that Lois Laine
has written this text inspired by the pain that Supermen caused her because of
his sudden leave from Earth without a single word of Goodbye, in order to
explore the last remainings of his dead planet. This article has been her only
channel for self expression, apart from that, she never stopped being a worthy
wife and mother in the family that she created in meantime. She never said a
single word about her pain again.
Sadness can be an amazing
source of inspiration. Not only for writting but also for initiating inner
change and internal conflicts that shake us and take our peace away.
Why the world doesn’t need
Superman? Why would we not be in a need of an almost perfect person, who never lies and
uses all its power to help humanity and to inspire it to embrace the goodness
inside them?
Because he is just too
perfect!
Because the rest of us are
weak, prone to tempations and lowerness, suffering and hurting others, prone on
lying.
We could never be like
Superman, we could never fully develop his virtues, he could only represent a
reference point for most of us and nothing more than that.
Then how could we become
inspired by this kind of person? Maybe we could on short term, but what happens
on long term when our weaknesses temporarely get back so that they can give us
the illusion that our so called idol is taking us to the right direction,
waiting paitently and wisely until the right moment comes so that they can
attack us again, suppress us again and impose us the impression that the entire
so called development we were experiencing lately was actually an illusion.
Believe me, Superman will
never be fully capable of awakening the divinity inside us because our
aspirations and greed towards becoming perfect will sooner or later conquer us.
Greed is a primitive emotion no matter the divine direction or goal we think we
are aspiring for.
Then what do we need?
A guide who is not a
Superman. Inspiration that does not fly but walks the earth firmly like the
rest of us.
A mortal that is same like
the rest of us, made by flesh and blood, who is not perfect 24/7, who have just
recently managed to defeat the demons that occupy all of us.
We need a person, an
inspiration who knows how it is to be imperfect, who knows about suffering, who
knows about being hurt and humiliated, who had committed mistakes in the past
and used to live the consequences of these mistakes, but also a person who has
managed to rise above all this, managed to survive and embrace its
imperfection, and is still here as a witness that we could also achieve the
same thing.
We need an example,
opportunity to believe, a real life story of someone who is same like as us and
yet managed to see more far away from all of us. A person who can easily gather
us around the fire or infront of the stage, whose words reflect our souls,
vibrate our hearts and fill our eyes with tears. A person that will remind us how broken and
ignorant we are, bu that will also show is the divinity that so far still did
not gave up from us.
Superman could never fully
inspire us. What does he know about failures, imperfection, lack of power,
illusion, weaknesses, internal conflicts, for cry withour anyone being next to
us to catch the falling tear. His path has been always clean, unlike most of us
who had to encounter darkness and ignorance very early in life.
That is the type of
inspiratiot humainity is in need of.
Therefore stop seeking
Superman!
Instead, seek your own story, your own Call and try to
understand that the greatest stories are always stories about us towards the
others, not about us towards ourselves.
Give your story to the worlds and give yourself also. If after few days or weeks your story reaches
you back, then you will know that so far you were going the right path. The
circle is then closed.
