It occurs to me that I level up in my life pretty often. I am enhanced with greater virtues, more consistent success at large, and occasionally a special power or two. Like any dedicated player, I form strategies and plans for accomplishing this, and tie it to a timeline of milestones, aka, about how long you convince yourself this might take.*
Okay, granted, in RPGS the numbers are right there for you to compare. The hard work is already done, right? Except how often do I really approach leveling up myself in my own live in this quantitative fashion? Even when I practiced at trying to put out a candle without touching it, and finally did it, I let myself wander into the solution (hint: think vacuum). I should totally make a video of that.
Anyway, the time had begun to conduct a serious study on the practice of heroic self-augmentation. I'm not saying "super" because sadly my mutant powers did not emerge during puberty and I'm going to have to be satisfied with more mundane achievements. Fortunately, many of these kick ass and bring tremendous personal satisfaction. What am I talking about?
Batman has a mass spectrometer. That's gotta be basically the thing he pushes stuff into at the Batcave to analyze them. Okay, so I don't have one, but if I did I could use it like him. Actually, I'm pretty sure I've done it before in Chemistry class.
In Identity Crisis, Superman catches what the super-aware DC superheroes who have already investigated miss; the knot used as the potential murder weapon was special and the hallmark of the villain Slipknot. How? Former boyscout. I could do that (actually, I was terrible at knot tying when I was one too, even more reason to give it another shot)!
My favorite astral travelers (Dr. Strange, The King of All-Night's Dreaming, Booghost, etc.) are all highly competent at the art of lucid dreaming. Something I've made attempts at in the past, but know it takes dedicated effort. More productive time to really ponder my next move on the chessboard of life!
The world can't wait; it calls out for a hero!
*I often joke that I possess the first dot in the Time sphere. I get penalties the farther out I go from seeing what time it was last though.
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