However, his father does offer the encouraging words that the man he decides to become will be the man to change the world, but even that is enough to prevent Clark Kent from spending much of his adult life exiling himself from society before discovering the Kryptonian ship in the Canadian Arctic where he is bestowed the costumed he is destined to defend the world in.
His extraterrestrial abilities make him feel like an outcast to his peers, suffering at the hands of bullies and his own fear of exposing his true self to the world, a fear outweighed by his own father.