>>81550514>>81551236Anon, this may shock and amaze you, but Superman isn't real.
This story is plainly absurd. While Superman is floating, waiting for this one jumper to calm down and talk to him, the sun in the background sinks beneath the horizon as noon becomes evening and evening becomes night. He just floats. There are almost certainly "better" ways he could be spending his time. Statistically speaking, it's almost certain that there's been a car crash or a plane accident or a murder or a robbery or a bombing or a fire or another /actual suicide/ in that time that Superman could have stopped.
That doesn't matter, because it's not real, it's a story. Superman's not a real man who has to conform to real restrictions, or balance his time between crises like a policeman or fireman might have to. He doesn't have to pick and choose, because he's a symbol - in this case, of the person who will always be there for you, who will always wait for you to be ready to talk, who will never leave you because they've got more important things to be doing, who will always respect your wishes and will always hear you out, who loves you unconditionally.
The story did not happen. Which makes what happened in the story all the more significant – there is none of the chaotic chaff of reality to drown out the truth. Everything that happened did so not because it was logical, but because it was true.
