With great power, comes great responsibility: The Choleric

So, if you’re reading this, I hope you’re familiar with Spider-Man as I’m going to use this as an example for my blog post.

So right now at my college, there’s something called the Leadership Seminar.

This event is a month process, where there is a seminar held once a week for a month.

The seminar is intended for all students interested in holding a leadership position for the next school year. (Ministry, Student Ambassadors, Freshmen orientation leaders, and RAs)

One of the things that the seminars touch on are temperaments.

The Ancient Greeks believed that each person had 2 of 4 types of temperaments, where 1 of the 2 are dominant to each other.

As for me, I’m a choleric-sanguine.

What this means is that I’m a person that takes charge and who likes to have fun all the time.

I have one of the most assertive and outgoing temperament combinations.

People with this type of temperament, in particular the choleric temperament, have made themselves great leaders….for good and for bad.

An example is Saint Paul, the apostle and missionary.

Before his conversion to Christianity and to Catholicism, Saint Paul was an avid persecutor of Christians. He was one of the most feared men of his time.

However, on that particular day en route to Demascus, Paul was struck by lightning and soon after converted to Catholicism.

Spider-Man

Just like in the Spider-Man movies, Peter Parker had a great power…maybe he was choleric????

I like the part when his uncle tells him that “with great power, comes great responsibility”

I love this quote!

His uncle couldn’t be more right.

Spider-Man’s abilities were unbelievable! With his talents he could do great good (defeating the evil villians and saving innocent bystanders) or he could do great evil (allowing Venom to control him and become an evil villain himself).

As it was with Saint Paul and with Spider-Man, both possessed great leadership abilities and power, but it was up to them to decide who to fight for.