Today is Day 6 of #HAWMC (WEGO’s Health Activist Writers Monthly Challenge).  The prompt today is:

Superpower Sunday! If you had a superpower – what would it be? How would you use it?

I thought long and hard about this question and the first answer I came up with was the only logical one I could think of.  My super power would be the ability to control the biological structure of any organic matter.  In other words, I could heal.  (I’d be able to do harm if I chose, but I’m a good person, so I’d only use my ability to heal.  Of course, there are a few doctors that I wouldn’t mind feeling the way I have for a few moments. – NO! Really, I would only use my powers for good!!)

How would I use my powers?  Hand on head…”I heal you, and  you, and you….”  You think that would be simple.  I’d heal people.  But really things would get complicated very quickly.

I know I’d have to keep my ability a secret.  I’d have to be the typical super hero and have a secret identity.  I know I wouldn’t be able to help everyone and that would break my heart.  How would I chose?  Would I only be able to help those who happen to be close to me?  Would it simply appear to be a miracle?

As much as I’d like to heal everyone I know I couldn’t, and I couldn’t sit around 24 hours a day just healing people.  Would I go around the country with a traveling show healing those who came to my tent?  “I Heal You Brother!” No, I don’t think that would work.  I know I’d like to heal those who I’ve met who have suffered so much, but there are so many more whom I have never met.

I know I’m going around in circles and repeating myself, but this is the problem with thinking up a superpower.  We don’t think about the reality of them.  I want to heal people, but I don’t know how to chose who to heal.  The reality is I won’t be able to heal everyone.  I’d have to live my life in secret.  I would only be able to heal those whom I came in contact with.  That wouldn’t be enough for me.

I think it’s best to not have a superpower.   We have to find our way in the world.  Perhaps we can change the world as we are.

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