Blog Assignment 8-A

www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/178/superpowers

For this blog assignment I tried several times to create an audio post explaining my choice for the superhero.  While I had it in the correct format each time, the blogger website wouldn’t load the files.  The super power that I decided on is the ability to cure the fears and weaknesses in a person’s mind with the touch of my hands.  This power is seen in an episode of the TV show Tales From The Darkside called “Distant Signals.”  The picture I’ve posted is of Mr. Smith, an alien from a distant planet who has been sent to earth to complete a detective show that was cancelled in the 1960s.  I am very drawn to this character because he is able to cure the actor in the episode of his alcoholism as well as his anxieties about acting for the first time in twenty years.  He does this by simply placing his hands on his head.  If I could have one super power it would not be to have any physical abilities like strength or flying, but rather the ability to create inner peace in the minds of anyone I wanted.  Not only would I have total happiness in my own mind, but I could bless all those I love with true inner peace.  While it is exciting to think of super powers that would give us glamorous abilities, I believe that the greatest happiness would come from an ability to center the human mind and physically cure mental ailments.