What is your superpower?

helel ben shachar · 2019-09-05T14:57:28+00:00

I think we all have a superpower that can be used for good but maybe it's not immediatly obvious as to what it is. I'm not talking about X-ray vision, telekinesis, or stuff of the movies. Causal observation easily confirms that there are no analogs of these things in real life, but maybe, just maybe, you have a minor superpower. This thought came to my attention a couple weeks ago as I was at an intersection downtown waiting to walk across it. I noticed a couple across the intersection had a number of kids with them and they were waiting on the light so that they could cross to my side of the intersection. I've walked my route for years so I'm familiar with traffic patterns and have been known to cross on a 'don't walk' light because it was perfectly safe to do because there was no traffic at that time or a vehicle(s) were far enough away that our paths wouldn't catastrophically intersect if I went ahead and walked. So back to the couple and the kids. The intersection at the moment was perfectly safe to cross but I chose not to. Most mindful parents, when they have kids with them, tend to cross intersections safely, with the light if you will, because it's a subtle learning moment for the kids. Wait until the 'walk' light in order to be safe. Then it occured to me that for the longest time that if there are impressionable kids at an intersection that I always crossed when the 'Walk' sign was lit so as to not set a bad example. I realized that my rather subtle superpower was not setting a bad example as to how cross an intersection when kids are present. It just never really occurred to me, or at least I hadn't really thought about it that way, that I had been doing that for as long as I can remember. So my superpower turned out to be setting a good example for kids at intersections. What's yours?