“The great mission of our day is not conquering the sea or space, disease, or tyranny. The grand quest which calls to the hero in every one of us is to become fully alive – to stand up and claim our birthright, which is inner freedom, love, and radiant purpose”, said by Jacob Nordby. Throughout my life, I have always thought that a superhero is a humungous man or woman who is gifted with a powerful superpower, and with it, he or she will be able to encounter any challenge. As I grew up, I realized that I changed, my perspective in life changed. Well, that is not an easy thing to say. It is as if a roller coaster bumped into my head and woke me up. As I grew up, I started to realize that even I could become a superhero. A superhero is a person who seeks every opportunity to help others. Any person can be considered a superhero if they save the life of another. Superheroes may be afraid of something, however, they are not afraid of working hard to overcome their fear and face the world. Everyone can be a superhero: your high school teacher, or even a mail carrier. Also, these people have become superheroes of somebody in their lifetime. Your teacher, for example, is already a superhero because he or she was the one who gave you such valuable information; also, teachers are the ones who gifted you with the ability to enter a university and get a good job without going to school and acquiring that knowledge. “Aspire rather be a hero than merely appear as one”, said Baltasar Gracian. We see superheroes in our daily life, and it was a surprise for me to find out that many ordinary people in my life are superheroes. A superhero is someone who is a role model, someone with good character traits, and a positive person that others admire and imitate their actions. Superheroes don’t need to fly or have a certain superpower; they just need to be gifted with a tender heart shining in the night. Some incidents happen in your life that are so memorable and cherishable to you, and they continue to linger in your mind. These events leave an everlasting mark in your life and propose lessons that you can never forget throughout your whole life. In this essay, I want to talk about an incident that happened in my life that made me realized that I am a superhero.
Throughout my life I have been classed as the kind girl; the girl who always studies hard to get good grades, and is very comfortable for herself and outspoken. I have always been happy with myself and had huge confidence in myself. Self-confidence is an issue that is widely ignored by many people as it is either regarded as attention-seeking or humility. I used to be a person who is full of joy, happiness, and cheerfulness. I always had huge confidence in myself, my body, and my personality until these recent years. It all started at the beginning of grade 10, when I started to realize that I am always left out between my close friends. It all started in the first lesson of the year. On the first lesson of 10th grade, I was sitting in class next to my friends, in the meantime, the biology teacher asked each one for his or her name. Then it was my turn to stand up, say my name, and how many years I’ve been in this school. I exhaled, hard: “My name is Malak Elkady and I have been in this school for seven years”. Everyone was looking at me, and then a boy in my class kept on laughing and said harshly: “Miss, you probably will know her name well in a quiet of days because she doesn’t do anything except studying, plus receiving honorable grades”. This incident broke me and made me suffer insecurity.
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I started losing my self-confidence and started seeing myself as the worst person in the world. I can't believe it, the first day of school is finally OVER. I rode the bus with a feeling of shame and unable to defend myself. I started to feel that I was unable to show the world who I am, and I started thinking to myself: “I am not only the girl who gets good grades; I have fun and go out like all other students in my class and I hope that one day they will start to see more of me that just that kind girl in class”. When I finally returned home, I started looking at myself and my body in hatred. It was a huge bump for me because it appears that I started losing my confidence. I didn’t know what to do and how should I solve my problem. I then came up with an idea of enhancing everything in my personality and start making people have a different view on me. This idea will take a long time because I need to become more powerful and regain my self-love, that was a really important key to make everyone see me as a new girl, not just the kind girl, who is a nerd.
Two months of school passed; in the meantime, I was still working on myself and to regain my self-love. What always broke me and made me refuse the journey that I had to enter to overcome my fears were the stereotypes that always made me feel that I wasn’t good enough and that I am not worthy enough. I always kept on saying to myself, I am a hard worker, I should not worry about what other people tell me, and that I am just a normal girl with hopes and dreams that I want to reach. But it always crushed me and a part of me got broken when students at school told me you always get good grades, you never fail, and you always say the correct answer. I always wanted to tell them that they always crushed me when they say these kinds of phrases, although they don’t know how much I was trying.
On that day I decided that I should talk to my mother about what happens to me in school every day and how I started to lose my self-confidence. I started talking to her about the stereotypes I face at my school, and how my friends using me for home works and classwork. Also, I started to tell them that my dreams are getting crushed day by day and how I started to struggle to regain my self-confidence. Then my mother hugged me and calmly told me: “My hard worker and precious daughter, you are putting too much pressure on yourself, let go a little bit and don’t think about what people say from stereotypes, they only say that because they don’t know you well enough. I believe that the most important thing is to start loving yourself and who you are. You also should start to become more powerful and start regaining your love in yourself and your body. I will always be there for you to help you regain your confidence in yourself”. So, then I said to my mother: “I can’t be thankful enough for having you in my life, I love you so much, and thank you for being my inspiration”. At this crucial turning point where I needed guidance, my mother was there for me to help me overcome my fear of losing my faith in regaining self-confidence, and she also gave me a push to try harder to regain my self-confidence.
I was now ready to truly begin my long quest or journey emotionally. I started crossing the threshold between the world I am familiar with, where I am just the kind person who started losing her self-confidence, to the new world, where I started regaining my self-confidence. I started watching many TED Talks about self-confidence, and there was a young woman who said that the first thing she did is went to the mall to get new clothes to change her style and go out of her comfort. So, I decided to do like her to inhibit my self-love again. This action signified my commitment to my journey. Throughout the journey, I started to realize that one of the greatest obstacles that are thrown to my path were my thoughts. My thoughts kept on telling me that I am not beautiful like all the other girls in my class, that I am not powerful enough, and that I won’t be able to get rid of my insecurity. To solve this problem, I started to write my thoughts on paper and right what do I like about myself. Also, I started to try to find solutions for all these thoughts. I started looking at myself in the mirror and started giving myself power by saying, “I am really beautiful and that I have the purest heart”. I realized that saying to myself positive words will help me reach my ultimate goal.
Then I was forced to approach my inmost cave, which is an inner conflict that I still didn’t face. I realized that at that moment I had to overcome the hatred I feel towards my body. I decided to go to a nutritionist to help me lose weight, even though I already had an ideal weight, but I wanted to reach my target weight to love my body. My doctor had a huge role in helping me regain my self-confidence and lose weight. Then I was able to lose weight with the help of my doctor and mother, and hopefully, I finally started to regain my confidence. After that, there was a deep inner crisis that I had to face to overcome my fear. I also said to myself: “I went through a lot and overcome many of my fears to regain my confidence, and throughout my journey I have captured many skills and knowledge, however, what I am missing is being powerful enough to stand up for anyone who hurts me”. Then I yelled fiercely: “SOCIETY IS THE WORST ENEMY ANYONE CAN HAVE AND I HAVE TO OVERCOME MY FEAR OF STANDING UP FOR MYSELF AND THE SOCIETY’S STEREOTYPES”.
Suddenly, the next day, two bullies from my class came to me while I was with my brother. One of them looked with his gloomy eyes to me and said: “Give me your homework, you probably got all the answers correctly, and you probably don’t do anything but study”. The other boy with glasses screamed to my brother. “Go to the resource room, where you belong, and don’t forget to bring me a pen”. So, then I heard a humongous ‘Boom’ and a sudden of the feeling of sadness, and anger. I finally was able to speak up for myself and said to the bullies: “Enough is enough, although you 2 always keep on bullying me and my brother, and you keep on calling me a nerd and calling my brother a ‘special need’, but my brother has the kindest and purest heart in this world. My brother and I can stand up for ourselves and we can stand up for ourselves. From now on we won't tolerate any bullies around us”.
“OH MY GOD, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT”, I said loudly. “I can't believe that I was finally able to stand up for myself and society’s stereotypes”. Seriously, girl, I thought to myself, you're like a million times stronger than the obstacles you face.
I can't believe it. I finally defeated my enemy, which is my thoughts and my fear of standing up for the society’s stereotypes. After a month, I finally realized that I am a superhero and emerged from this battle as a stronger and more powerful person. I said to myself it was time for me to return to my friends as a thinner girl, a more stylish girl, and a more powerful girl with a strong self-confidence in herself. When I was ready to go back to my friends and my ordinary world, I started to doubt myself if I am ready enough to return to my ordinary life. I don’t know why, even though I was a different person, I was still afraid to be broke from my friends and classmates again. I was still afraid after this journey that took me 6 months, they won’t see me as a different person.
The last step in my journey started now. This was my climax in which I had to overcome my fear of returning to my ordinary world. I said to myself: “If I fail, I will suffer, so I have to succeed and not be afraid of returning to my ordinary life”. I realized that now I have grown wiser and more mature to return. I yelled to myself and said: “It is your time to prove to anyone that you are the most heroic person in the world, who was able to overcome all her fears”. Then I finally went out with my friends after 6 months of working hard on myself and not going out with my friends. I have grown as a new person, learned many things, and faced many of my fears, when my friends saw me wearing really lovely clothes, and my hair was done in a really lovely way. Also, I was walking towards them with really powerful self-confidence. They told me: “You look different, and you have become skinny and you look so beautiful in what you are wearing. Also, we feel that you became more confident in me”. I was happy with the words they said to me although they were one of the greatest causes of my fears and they made me lose my confidence, I was happy to put an end to all their stereotypes and prove to them that I am powerful enough to stand up for myself.
“The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of yourself”, said Joseph Campbell. Throughout my journey of regaining my self-confidence I realized that even I can become a superhero, I realized that every person lies within him or her a superhero that is revealed when he or she overcomes a challenge in his or her life. Throughout your life, you are approached by several incidents that change your perspective in your life. It can also make you realize what kind of superhero lies within you. I also realized that a superhero doesn’t need to wear capes, fly, or have a superpower. Also, all superheroes do not want to be famous for their daring acts. Some, however, do not look like a superhero as many would imagine superheroes. I also perceived that every step in your life you will encounter a mission, and to solve this mission or overcome your mission; you will find out that you are a superhero. I realized that through my superhero’s journey I should look on the positive side of everything, and I should extract what I have learned. “Someday you are going to look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart is broken, but your life was changing”, said Elizabeth Gilbert. Life is full of journeys that may break you and crush you, but you always have to stand up again on your feet and face the world.
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