I’ll Use My Powers for Good and Not Evil
For reasons I could explain, but are banal and long winded, I’ll just cut to the chase and tell you that I’ve been thinking a lot about superheroes lately.
Good superheroes. Dark superheroes. Flawed superheroes. Just…superheroes and their super powers.
Which got me to thinking today, as I waited in the lunch line, what sort of superpowers would I like to have if I got to choose?
I think things like seeing through buildings, swinging from webs or having adamantium claws are all well and good, but realistically, are they useful?
Flashy yes, but wouldn’t something a little more down to earth be more desirable?
Here are a couple ideas on the sorts of superpowers I’d lean toward:
The ability to eat whatever I want and not gain weight
Imagine it! I could save the world from illness and obesity by eating up all the snack foods!
Mayors could simply project a cookie in the sky and I’d come a’runnin’!
“Step aside small child, let me save you from that cotton candy.”
Or how about…
The ability to sleep for only two hours but feels like I slept eight
Can you *imagine* all the good I could do for the world if I only slept a few hours but felt fully rested! I could move mountains! I could persuade world leaders! I could travel long distances and not feel sleepy!
Yeess!
Ok, maybe that’s a lame one.
So let’s try:
The ability to read small print without squinting
Zap! Pow! Ka-zam!
I shall help out senior centers by announcing, “Bring me that medicine bottle! I will read every ingredient printed in a half-point font!”
Menus will hold no sway over me!
My Kindle can be set to the smallest font available!
My browser window can be reduced back to normal size!
I can save the world, or just myself, really, from the scourge of crow’s feet!
Oh, no, ok, I got it!
The ability to endure small people with a single sigh
It’s the key to world peace, truly.
(and I don’t mean short people….)
Now…I need a cape! Time to shop!
Comments
Lucky
Hmm. I like the ability to eat and not gain weight. And the cookie symbol – genius!
I'm not sure anyone should aspire to endure small people. How about the ability to transform them painlessly into potted plants? (Oh, alright. Into thinking, functioning, compassionate human beings. But really, potted plants will do as far as I'm concerned).
I think I'd go for some sort of all encompassing healing ability. I'd eat all I want and instantly blast the fat off my frame, never age. I'd have to hide it, of course, but now and then I'd mysteriously show up at the hospital and send everyone home.
Karen Fayeth
Lucky – Hmm…eat all I want, not gain weight AND heal people.
I like how you think!
:)