The wind tunnel is crazy.  It blows my jacket up and flips my umbrella inside out.   The more open space there is, the more wind there is.  Sometimes all the buildings in a row can accelerate some breeze into a gale force.  I have had to turn my back against the wind just so I can keep my eyes open.  It’s difficult.  The only way to stop the wind, is to stop the Earth from revolving.  Or is that rotating?  If Earth spins faster, would there be a difference in the things that grow, or in the weather?  The divinity of Superman is his ability to change the direction of the Earth in its orbit.  He could probably propel it towards another solar system.  I spend my days worrying whether I have enough sleep rather than whether the universe will collapse and implode on itself, the force great enough to create another universe, without Earth and without human beings.

It will be a decision of life and death, if Superman were to truly exist and if he were to do exactly that–to recreate life in the void of space.  The power he holds, as a divinity, with the power of flight, strength and sight, makes him the responsible one.  He can verify the right and the wrong, and, if the  seeing of what human beings have created of themselves, becomes a burden in the weighting of justification, he will weigh his judgement and make the decision.

In Superman’s universe, the act of living is an idea.  It is the ability to think that makes living truly a life.  Human beings have the ability to decide for themselves what it is they are doing and will do.  However, Superman exists because the ideas that some people have involve the acts of life that destroy.  So, will Superman take it upon himself to change the course of humanity?  Will he fly out to outer space, and spin the planet yet again…  hoping that the change in direction or speed, will change the course of humanity for good?

Are the lives of human beings changeable?  Is the design of a human being a set of hard and fast rules?  Is this the only way to create life?

Why do human beings believe in divinities like Superman?  Do they wish to change?  Do they resent and rue the existence that exists?  Do human beings wish they were different?  Do they wish that everyone alive, including themselves, were like Superman…  with insight and ability of such greatness?  Do they wish they had the degree of superpower Superman has?

Maybe if human beings imagined the best and did what they could in the degree of human-ness and humanity that they are capable of, the, in a way, we would have Earth Day for real and for sure.  We would not need a superhero with superhuman powers to determine the ultimate existence of human beings.  We would ourselves, determine that human beings have life, and that we are living in a way that does not destroy life.  Would we then, not always imagine the better creation?  The creation that would exist if we were to ask Superman to change the direction of spin the planet is in?

Like I said earlier, I worry more about walking through a wind tunnel, than I do about trying to change the way human beings are.  I do not stay awake at night wondering if the earth would stop spinning or if the universe would implode.  I often hope that there would not be so many days that rain, and I always wish there were more days of hot weather.  I easily wish to see more of my friends and family, always rueing the time i am always lacking, and sometimes, missing and losing.

I thank the Marvel Comics people for creating such an amazing and inspirational character like Superman.  He filled my childhood days with ideas of a superhuman being who had the superhuman ability to change life because he had supreme judgement that never failed.  It is as if he were given his superpowers because he understood and could see deeply into human psyche and therefore use his powers for good, for sure.

So, with this musing on Superman and Earth Day, I wonder, if, ever, life on earth will ever change?  Human beings will always be flawed, and will always make mistakes of life and living.  It is how we live…  And grow.  I make a prayer, with, this, that people will take care… and that perhaps, Superman, will take care, and hope that life will not get any worse, at bottom, and that we will always get better.