Power, loss and responsibility
As usual on Tuesday, I take a ‘mental health’ day. Usually it revolves around something I enjoy doing that makes me more grounded and comfortable in myself. In this case, its watching movies and in this case Spider-Man: Far From Home. I’ve always had an affinity with Peter Parker as an everyman character, even more with Miles Morales but either way its the ongoing balance of a ‘normal’ life versus an extraordinary life.
However, we see Peter mourning the loss of his mentor, Tony Stark. Everyone is looking towards him for the next move but he’s still grappling with being Spider-Man on a bigger, global stage after the events of Avengers Endgame (in a nutshell: huge event for the fate of the universe) He’s struggling with being the go to protégé of Stark Industries when his work was very much one of the working class, working with his mind without being born into the Stark name.
I always think of my own work and that same struggle of growth in lean times. Finding your feet, opening eyes and helping people get to know themselves. In that sense, I understand how people are genuinely baffled who don’t know me ask why I became a coach. Its because I had an affinity of listening, questioning and suggesting plus experience and training to assist people with their goals and intentions.
To me, its a gift but its also a curse because I see the world differently. I see a world that can be changed for the better, not because I’m the one to save it, but because I always see the potential in others of greatness. I understand that’s what also drives Peter because he doesn’t want to kill the antagonist, he wants them brought to justice and held to account. He’s growing to understand the responsibility, the weight of being Spider-Man yet having normal everyday problems.
Sure, I won’t be engineering things to work in a mechanical sense. I do help people understand their own selves and empower them to grow in the direction they want. So yeah, that’s my superpower.
Until next time, #embraceinfinity everyone.
