So, the house of El and I go back a few years. First it was Smallville that captured my young and stereotypical heart's magnetism toward all things cheesy. With its heroine endings and corny costumes, my first love came naturally. After a season or two, I made plans to name my first son Clark at a time when cooties were still a big part of my childhood dogma.

Now, I've grown up, at least I like to think so. You've read the title by now, and know that this article is about Supergirl. So, if you know anything about Supergirl the TV show, you would know my interest in things cheesy hasn't changed. No amount of Kryptonite can separate my Kryptonian heart's love for this series. People may think it is cheesy and corny and even predictable, but I, however, will defend its honor to the end. It is more than a series to binge watch, there are life lessons to be taken from Supergirl--ways to live life fuller and view the world better.

With season two having just aired this week, it's time to appreciate this under-loved series and amp up the excitement for another installment of Supergirl!

So, here are three inspiring reasons to fall in love with Supergirl again.

1. Supergirl takes every opportunity to do good. In the episode, "Human for a Day," Kara loses her powers when National City needs her the most; an earthquake hits the city and leaves it reeling. Yet, regardless of her new found humanity and fragility, she readily sacrifices those insecurities to continue helping people in need. As the saying goes, "heroes don't take time off." Well, that day she wasn't a superhero anymore, but, like any person without Lazar vision, has the option to help those who need it. Kara helped someone in need, not because of her superpowers, but because the opportunity presented itself.

2. Supergirl always sees the good in people. This is arguably Kara's better superpower--the thing that makes her a hero. In the same episode, Supergirl stops a potentially lethal robbery by appealing to people's better selves and she didn't have to use her powers to do so. The situation these robbers and the whole of National City were in was unprecedented for the city; death and destruction were everywhere. Yet, she reminded everyone that they were better than their circumstances--that being selfish and violent was not who they were inside, and she did so with sympathy and compassion. They were good people, better than this. They just needed someone who saw what they forgot to remember; who they really were.

3. Supergirl knows when to ask for help. It's ironic almost that Kara, the super girl with super strength and super speed and other super attributes, would need to ask for help. She's indestructible, right? But take away her Kryptonian powers and she's fully human; she still needs support. One of the first episodes is about her being herself, Kara, and trying to fit in with the world. But when National City needs her and she becomes supergirl, she begins to face new and daunting challenges. So, she does what needs to be done to manage her new life and begins to build a network of people she can trust with her identity but also trust with her problems and imperfections. The title of this episode, "Stronger Together," preludes to the whole of the first season. Kara's friends are what she falls back on when she needs to move forward.

Yeah, Supergirl can be amazingly cheesy and sometimes even cliche. Yeah, Kara, or Supergirl, is a fictional character set in a fake universe, filled with made up plot lines. But being a better person transcends TV entertainment. The character of Supergirl is just a means of seeing what it would be like to be that better person--what it could be like to make the most of every opportunity handed to us and not just sit back and watch the world crumble, to see the good in people rather than the bad and treat everyone justly, and when it all proves to much, to sacrifice our ego and the costume we wear to ask for help from our closest allies.

Being a hero doesn't mean super powers or amazing skills, it is the desire to be a better person and the ability to make it happen.