its a bird!! no, its a plane!!....no its superman.....all the people who grew up in the 80s n 90s should have heard these lines again and again......in my childhood the tele was filled with toon superheroes of all shapes sizes and having all sort of superhuman abilities ...and almost all of us had favourites and i remember most of my class fellows liked superman and guys like that but for me he was too good to be real...way too perfect to be inspiring.....but i always liked heroes of a different kind, I've always fancied heroes with a dark side ....characters like batman, the hulk and in recent times the wolverine have always seemed much more real, much more inspiring.
My be it is so....because we all have a dark side to us! a side that we hide, despise and try to do away with. We are scared of it, without remembering that it is as much a part of us as flesh and blood. For some it is their past that haunts them, for some it is their highly inflammable anger & rebellious thoughts and for some their dark side haunts them as unfulfilled wishes, desires and destiny.
It is only now that i have realized why those characters seemed much more believable than the Mr perfects. Now i know that all of us have a hidden dark side and only those are superheroes who accept it as a part of themselves yet never shy away from saying or doing whats right. This might be a scarce breed of men but look around.... you may find some, better still look inside and you may find one!!
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