Growing up, I had secretly always wanted superpowers. I would always try to see if I could move things with my mind, fly, or even turn invisible. That fantasy had died when I started to get older, but a small part of me never lost hope.

I started watching Marvel movies in secret when I got into Middle School. I was already an outcast amongst my peers, and I didn't really want to make it worse by showing them that I was a true geek. I saw Toby Maguire as Spider-Man, and I instantly fell in love. To this day, I'm not entirely sure why I fell in love with Spider-Man. Like Peter, I wasn't exactly the coolest kid in school and we had both fallen in love with photography at an early age. I had spent countless nights wishing that I would get bit by a spider and then wake up with perfect vision and have the ability to walk on walls and spurt webs out of my hands. Sadly, that never happened.

As I got older I began to obsess over Marvel even more, especially when Disney bought the rights to it. I fell in love with movies such as Iron Man, Guardians of The Galaxy, and Thor. I started to embrace my inner geek. I no longer wanted to hide the fact that I was in love with superheroes, and Stan Lee helped me realize that. I fell in love with the characters that Stan Lee created. They were brave, selfless, and in a way a very relatable.

Stan Lee's death has devastated us all, but he has lived a long and prosperous life. He inspired so many kids to be brave and honest and he created a world that ended up giving jobs to so many people. So, while we remember Stan Lee by reminiscing on the many heroes he has created in the Marvel Universe, let's not forget who the greatest one of all is, Stan Lee.