A lust for money and power and utter disregard for humanity are vices that run rampant in the world we live in today. If you don't believe me, I dare you to pick up any newspaper today and tell me thats not true...We see Sports Stars testing positive for lethal drugs like cocaine and marijuana, people who we once aspired to be like. People we looked up to. We see a glimmer of hope in the way newly bred politicians have come into the limelight. Only to fizzle out and disappoint us after claiming the power they sought all along. The poor man still lives without a home. The beggar on the street got an arm amputated just to earn some bucks to get by.
The law remained the same. Influential people got away with murder. Promised tax reforms could only brim and bring false hope to those fanatics who still believed in the new head of state.
This has been earth's story... A tale that has unfolded into a diabolical Lord Voldermot with the passing of century after century...
Media channels craving higher ratings. Scandal driven power hungry, a quest for fame and fortune at the expense of the noble code of morality. Inept self serving law enforcers in Police departments who stop at nothing to gobble each morsel of bribe they have a chance to swallow. Firemen do not show at the incident site when people are dying in the flames. Doctors do not give voice to their better angels at the sight of a patient drawing their last breath. Teachers are seen 'aiming for a cop out', in a hurry to get to the next institute, The school bully is proud to be a part of the frat group, getting a regular boost of negative ego at home to shatter the spirit of an innocent kid. Religious reformers are split into diverse sects. Each believing themselves to be a better revolutionary than the other. Ethics and morality are dying a slow death at the hands of lust, crime, greed, ego and corruption.
And yet, there is but a handful of citizens in the solar system who still focus on hope. Cancer hospitals, charity boxes, bread crums sprinkled on the side walk for hungry birds to devour, animal shelters where an injured stray dog can recuperate and walk again on four legs. A school for poor unpriviledged children where a scrawny child forced into child labor can dream of being a successful bread winner. Now you may not see such citizens in everyday life but you can aspire to be one of them. It may sound cheesy and laughable to you. It may be something you believe people will laugh at you for if you ever mustered enough courage to blurt it out in a social gathering of 2 let alone a ceremony. But every so called nerd, every so called geek, every outcast teenager or adult in the world knows that their inspiration to do good in the world and inspire others to follow suit is because of Superheroes.
Superheroes have lived in the outcast since the evolution of onscreen television. But in the current context of affairs, even a noble and virtuous genre like this has been polluted to quite an extent with dark and dim crusaders who believe the end justifies the means. Inspite of that however, I am really proud to say that this malpractice has been rebutted to quite an extent ever since the Supergirl series came up on television. It takes a great deal of courage to reveal this as a guy especially in a world fixated with male chauvinism and arrogance. But quite clearly the way the show has brought humanity into the limelight is a tale waiting to be told. She is an agent of change. A beacon that can bring a decent person back in the light after they had almost become submerged into a deep dark sea of corruption.
She can walk into a palace in the way that a random person walks into their living room. She can strong arm the best chef in the world to prepare her everyday meals. She can have the most luxurious jewelry in the world on display at her bedside and she can book a cruise ship each day to take the most extravagant trip to the corners of the world. But despite having all that power... despite the fact that She could conquer the entire human race without a scratch on her body....She takes it upon herself to be a protector...A savior....A Ray of hope...
And even though the evil in this world could make you believe that all is lost....Even though, all the saints and all the silent heroes of yesteryear may call it a day soon...Supergirl is the show that restores the belief that there is still hope. That even though, it's like a lost cause...And the way out is marred by obstacles more powerful than those a Harry Potter would have to face to break down a 'Horcrux'... There will be new heroes... Who will restore faith in humanity....Those who will fight cancer... Those who will nurse a stray dog or a bird with a broken wing back to health...Those who will set up a school to help a lost child to find their bearings in the world... In the end I would sum up with the words of Lucas Scott '-E.E. Cummings once wrote: 'To be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.'
