Growing up, we were always asked what we want to be when we were older. For some they knew immediately what they wanted to do. I was one of them. Whenever asked that question, I would always simply state, “I want to be Spiderman” or “I’m going to be Superman growing up”. I had this belief of the type of man I wanted to grow up to be. This idea of the person I wanted to become. To this day, I want to uphold that same dream I had as a kid. To uphold the same great values that my heroes had however, when I turned into an adult I had a question that I, to this day, still haven’t answered. Where is the line between emulating my hero’s and following my own sense of right and wrong? I was so ingrained in what they thought was right that rarely did I ever give account as to what I thought was right. I knew I wanted to grow up to be a man of the same character as them but I don’t live in a world where there are always completely right and completely wrong answers. As I grew, I needed to figure out my own path and stop blinding following the mantra of “WWPPD” or “What Would Peter Parker Do”. It’s frustrating knowing what you want to be, but not knowing how to exactly get there.

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