Magneto Was Right....

"Focus....is found somewhere between rage & serenity..." (Charles Xavier)

For anyone that is not already aware....I'm a "geek"...through & through--right down to the old bones. I've sequestered myself into Hermitude these past few days, as I've been feeling under the weather. Today while I was housebound--I watched "X-Men: First Class", which I very much enjoyed. They did change some things...but I'm not going to fly into geeky outrage about any of it. That's not what I wanna talk about today. I'd rather talk about Magneto.

They got Magneto RIGHT.

& now I'm overthinking things...as is my nature.

Magneto has long been one of my very favorite comic book characters EVER. Common consensus would be that he's a villian...but that's not really true. He was merely a man--a mutant--with passion & vision...& he was willing to fight for his cause. To fight for what he believed in. & to lead others like him to fight. To fight for each other. To fight for change....

Now--I know Magneto is fictional. All too many of my heroes are fictional.

That does not mean they inspire us any less.

I have gifts & talents I cannot always control. I get angry....so angry...& lose my focus. Hell, as I write & speak to you at this moment, this is an effort in regaining my focus ...as a writer. I spend alot of time feeling ...all alone in a room full of people. & I've always been a misanthropic outcast.

I would read X-men comics in my youth....& it was never the humans I identified with.

I was always a mutant.

But there was something that always worked it's way in & out of the ever cranking, ever grinding cogs & gears inside my overactive imagination....the question was always simple. Who's side would you choose? In another realm, where mutant genes were a reality, would you fight alongside Professor X? Or Magneto?

Somehow...I never thought I'd be hanging out with Professor X...

“The time for subtlety is passing. Now is the time for change.” [New Mutants (Vol. 1) #38]