Hope as a Superpower

Flying is usually my chosen superpower (not that anyone is bequeathing me with superpowers). I used to think that invisibility would be a close second, but I could also see a lot of issues with invisibility, and I wouldn’t actually want to overhear conversations.

But more and more this year, I’ve been thinking that optimism would be a more useful superpower. I’m not talking about ostrich-like head-in-the-sand optimism (which, apparently, ostriches do not do). I’m talking about hearing all of the facts and still holding hope that things will be okay.

It has been a hard year to have hope.

It is so much easier to get swept up in the chaos — everything feels in flux, and it has been a long time since I’ve read the news and felt any positive emotion. So it feels like a superpower to be able to see everything happen and still feel like everything will be okay.

So while I would still choose the ability to fly — it just feels so useful — always being able to access hope would be a close second.