So, as you know, I haven’t been making a lot of comics. I’m just not in a place mentally and emotionally where I can. With this Pandemic, and chaos, it’s just not working for me.
I’ve been thinking and praying for a while, and I want to try, Lord willing, something new. I want to try a blog about my own struggle to balance my life. To be spiritually, physically, and mentally healthy (in spite of my illness).
I took a survey in college when I first went. I was pretty strong mentally and spiritually, but mediocre physically. When I returned, my spirit was (according to the survey) strong, but my mind had slipped a little.
I could just keep the spirit strong, as it were, with the Lord’s help. But I keep thinking about this idea of balance. This idea of the three-legged stool of health, and really, how mine has been getting weaker gradually over the past 10 or so years, maybe more.
So, I want to improve mentally and physically, first. I want to keep my relationship with Jesus my priority, but I know he would want me to work on my areas where I am weak.
So, for the next 21 days, I’m going to do two things to help mentally and physically:
Try very hard to go to bed by 10, maybe even 930 when possible.
Read. I don’t really care for fiction right now, but I’ve got a text on medicine. Not that I intend to practice, but I need to keep learning, particularly since I am free to let my mind go to pasture.
Eventually I want to do other things to help, but it’s easier to make small changes at first. Really I should do one or the other. I may have to revise this plan. Sleep is very important, particularly when you have a chronic condition.
So, which of my characters will be my mascot? Probably Apothecary Bob. He’s the closest thing I have to a doctor in any of my settings. Which is really odd now that I think about it. I think I made an ESPer that was an EMT. Basically he was a jock that became an EMT and somehow had psychic powers akin to Jean Grey (not so much Professor X). I was thinking ESPmt? But that looked/sounded absurd.
I had recently been thinking of how many super powered people in the comics tend to fight crime traditionally, and wondering what other things they could do with their powers. I mean, could a Mystic healer clear out all the hospitals? Or would there be some kind of code against that? Could a psychic be an LPC? Could someone with telekinesis work construction? Moving heavy things, clearing wreckage for disaster relief, etc.?
There are so many more options than just super-powered vigilantes. They could actually be members of the police with appropriate powers. Maybe people with teleportation or flight or speed could be couriers. Or quickness could be used to calculate things faster than computers, for quantum calculations, or just lots of basic algebra.