Welcome home, you were never supposed to leave
Okay so I love the character of Charles Xavier, aka Professor X. Some people want to be like Superman or Batman when they grow up, or they set more realistic goals for themselves. Not me, one of my goals is to become like Charles Xavier. Why you ask? because I have the aspirations and interests of a twelve year old boy.
Why do I love the character so much? Well to start off he has a brain. I love smart characters and always gravitate towards them. He doesn't just have any brain, but one of the smartest out there. But rather than using that brain to do harm he instead uses it to help people. He has a lot of money and potential and decides that rather than making a profit off of it he creates a school to teach people how to control themselves better.
Charles Xavier has hope and that to me is always something aspire to. That is one of the things that makes him special in my book, the fact that he keeps hoping. He sees inside of people's minds practically on an instinctual level, reading them to a degree that is almost unsettling. He can see the messed up parts of people and be torn apart by those tragedies time and time again, yet he still has hope. He knows all their darkness and still has hope in a world where everyone can be equal and live their lives. He knows that even his best friend and his surrogate sister believe otherwise and he still stands by that hope. He knows that the government does not agree with him so he went and he created his own place to gather power before he could try and sway the government. He knows that his best friend and surrogate sister are willing to kill a lot of people to get their vision of the world to come true and he knows he needs to stop them; but he never kills them and still tries time and time again to save them from their own hate and pain. He will visit them in prison and invite them to try and live and work towards peace even if they have rejected his offer time and time again.
Don't get me wrong, he goes dark. At one point he gets addicted to a serum and shuts off his powers because his own pain and taking on the pain of everyone gets to be too much. At one point he over reaches himself and tries to kill the entire world. It's terrifying once you see what the powerhouse that is his mind can do when aimed at more destructive purposes.
He always comes back though. He comes back, reconnects and puts himself through all that pain again for a people who still don't fully acknowledge his own kind as anything other than monsters some days. He does it for bruisers and runaways, people who have had their backs turned on them by the world are equal to queens in his eyes. He will take on their pain with his own and fight to make the world a better place.
I want to aspire to be a person like that. I want to be the person who can help people even while their world is falling apart, to not be consumed by bitterness in time and not force myself to disconnect. I want to be able to use my mind to help people, even if I never make a career out of it.
Why do I love the character so much? Well to start off he has a brain. I love smart characters and always gravitate towards them. He doesn't just have any brain, but one of the smartest out there. But rather than using that brain to do harm he instead uses it to help people. He has a lot of money and potential and decides that rather than making a profit off of it he creates a school to teach people how to control themselves better.
Charles Xavier has hope and that to me is always something aspire to. That is one of the things that makes him special in my book, the fact that he keeps hoping. He sees inside of people's minds practically on an instinctual level, reading them to a degree that is almost unsettling. He can see the messed up parts of people and be torn apart by those tragedies time and time again, yet he still has hope. He knows all their darkness and still has hope in a world where everyone can be equal and live their lives. He knows that even his best friend and his surrogate sister believe otherwise and he still stands by that hope. He knows that the government does not agree with him so he went and he created his own place to gather power before he could try and sway the government. He knows that his best friend and surrogate sister are willing to kill a lot of people to get their vision of the world to come true and he knows he needs to stop them; but he never kills them and still tries time and time again to save them from their own hate and pain. He will visit them in prison and invite them to try and live and work towards peace even if they have rejected his offer time and time again.
Don't get me wrong, he goes dark. At one point he gets addicted to a serum and shuts off his powers because his own pain and taking on the pain of everyone gets to be too much. At one point he over reaches himself and tries to kill the entire world. It's terrifying once you see what the powerhouse that is his mind can do when aimed at more destructive purposes.
He always comes back though. He comes back, reconnects and puts himself through all that pain again for a people who still don't fully acknowledge his own kind as anything other than monsters some days. He does it for bruisers and runaways, people who have had their backs turned on them by the world are equal to queens in his eyes. He will take on their pain with his own and fight to make the world a better place.
I want to aspire to be a person like that. I want to be the person who can help people even while their world is falling apart, to not be consumed by bitterness in time and not force myself to disconnect. I want to be able to use my mind to help people, even if I never make a career out of it.