We Need No Superhero

She graduated three years back and now she’s 23. She set foot in the University not knowing what course to choose, and I think that’s the world’s most complicated question to ever answer by an undecided incoming freshman student, a student who cares so much about her future but a bit lazy to kick great efforts in order to make a difference. With that very low self-esteem only led her to temporarily withhold her goals in life. But now she changed, a wakeup call changed her.

Who would have imagined that Ariane got this far? A mere student then who actually never got a chance to lead her subordinates, to represent her school in competing against universities, to prove what she was able to do that others cannot.

And worse, a student who then offensively recognized at her weakest by some, because they see her future was standing on an unsupported ground. She was a relaxed student that time and was coming late every first period. A student who once aspired to get her Cum Laude…fairytale gone bad. During college, some people always claim that once a student gone bad in terms of grades, she’s gone forever but intelligence doesn’t always measure by how high your grades are. As Dumbledore said, “It is our choices that show us who we are, far more than our abilities.”

Ariane is now taking a position of being a Global Marketing Director in a business company after two years of working in the Philippines as a writer in Summit Media and as a Production Manager in Regal Films Entertainment. She just found out that working in media industry never became one of her passions−not even once, really. Hence, she left and equipped herself to head abroad.

She is the type of person who had always been dreaming of helping her fellowmen, the people who really need her help. She studied not only for her own sake, but for all the people who may eventually benefit the moment she expands money by taking her job very seriously, bawling her eyes out that she would have wanted to jab it with a tooth pick and eat them.

It might sound corny or even funny to admittedly say that she always prays to make this happen, to make her own charity for her people. Ariane never wished to take a seat in the throne of the president (whoever he/she may be). Because with the belief embedded within her, helping people doesn’t necessitate you to acquire positions first, as long as you have the call of heart, that’s more than enough. This world needs no superhero. Let the superhero within you be triggered by opening your heart and mind.

Note: Third Person POV