How will I use my superpowers?

My spidey senses are tingling

Author

Trent Buenzli
December 18, 2024

I wrote this note to myself on September 8, 2024, a few weeks before recording the first episode of the Love News Network. I didn’t yet know what was coming, but I knew that something was gonna change in a big way. This was an attempt to set my intention and (preemptively) confront my deepest fears (shame & criticism from others), while focusing my energy on what actually mattered to me. It’s always fun to review what’s going through the head heart at the start of a new journey.

I have superpowers

The ability to see

To see the people & things & places in front of me

To hear what’s happening all around me

To feel what’s right here

To feel what’s happening inside me

I have superpowers

The ability to appreciate

To appreciate the people & things & places in front of me

To hear the beauty of the birds singin’

To feel the love that’s right here

To feel the love that’s inside me

I have superpowers

That’s clear to me

I have superpowers

But I must wield them wisely

The more I see

The more I see that the less I know

The more I appreciate

The more I appreciate that I can let go

I have superpowers

That’s clear to me

But how do I want to use ‘em?

That’s the choice that’s up to me

Will I be like Venom: gripped by ego?

Will I be like Spider-Man: morally-aligned hero?

Do I want to be like Tom Hardy…

Or Tobey? Well… when you put it that way…

Now I see… that whatever choice I make, the cops will try to lock me up as a vigilante

Because I’m uncontrollable

And those who can’t be controlled are accused of stoking anarchy

Those who can’t be shamed into conformity are scary

Those who awaken to their superpowers — then decide to use ‘em — are intimidating!

They’re a menace to those who deny what they’ve been gifted

They’re unhinged

A renegade

An extremist

A psycho

That’s what they’ll call me

But you know who you are…

A rebel

Now I see... my life is what I make it

I can use my superpowers however I decide to

I’ll be locked up anyway

Because I’m breaking all the rules of what I’m “supposed to do”

But, who do I want to be, as I’m led to the gallows?

Or a force of light, called T. Happy?

I have these superpowers

How will I use 'em?

Or a place of lightness

From a place of obligation

I have these superpowers

How will I use 'em?

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