Yes, I am still here. I never left, actually. I thought I needed a break and just stayed away for as long as I considered appropriate for myself.
Anyways, I always ask this question to anyone I meet, mainly because the answers are fascinating and it reveals a bit about a person's hidden desires.
If you had the choice to select ONE super power in your life, active from this very moment, what would it be AND why?
Now obviously there's an endlessly long list but I'd like you to go wild in your imagination and choose anything which is normally considered absolutely impossible.
HOWEVER, YOU CANNOT SAY THIS OR ANYTHING SIMILAR: A superpower that allows me the ability to get anything (because then you can use this superpower to get other powers)
Here are some examples:
1) Being a particular age forever, like the brand says, forever 21
2) Being able to go back in time whenever you want. ***Note, you cannot go to the future, you are capable of returning to the present day when you desire to, your age, knowledge and everything you've had will remain with you even if you go back a 1000 years.
3) Immortality (well, you never die, but the only problem is that you will still age up and become old)
4) Healing hands (I like this one. You could cure anything, and probably stay young forever too by curing your body, wrinkles, skin elasticity, body functioning etc. You could also, in a way, be nearly immortal as you could heal yourself after any lethal event e.g. you get shot by a gun, or get stabbed etc.)
5) Invisibility with activate/deactivate abilities (I notice the type of people who select this superpower are either those who are very evil from within e.g. they want to be invisible to hurt others, rob banks without being seen or they are those who are very sick and tired of humanity and just wanted to be non-existent while still being alive(
6) Infinite money (typical one)
7) Teleportation (interesting one, go to any place in the world instantly)
8) Telekinesis (manipulate the position of any inanimate object with your hands)
9) Manipulate your subconscious (be able to make yourself believe or disbelieve anything with a strength similar to that of absolute certainty e.g. "I do not need money to be successful", erase past memories and give orders to your subconscious)
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You see what I meant when I said go wild with your imagination? The list of powers can be endless so whatever comes in your mind, go ahead and write it.
As for my choice, I'd go with HEALING HANDS because I think the ultimate wealth in this world is your health and if you can keep it absolutely perfect, mentally, physically, emotionally, then you are the strongest individual in this world. Also, I'd like to cure my depression and anxiety.
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I think wisdom is a super power and I wish I had it.
@CyberLN
"I think wisdom is a super power and I wish I had it."
As paradoxical as it may seem, that insight suggests to me that you already have more wisdom than most.
I'm with Cyber...
I wish I could juggle a soft-boiled egg, a bowling ball and a running chainsaw, while riding a unicycle on a tightrope.
Not wild enough?....bloody whatifs.
I always wanted the abilities/powers of Spiderman. That has been my absolute favorite superhero for as long as I can remember. The acrobatic abilities, climbing on walls and ceilings, shooting webs from my wrists, swinging from building to building.... Wow! Always fascinated me. Plus (I know some of you will find this hard to believe...), I always loved his smart-ass attitude when catching the bad guys. Yep, I would have an absolute blast with those types of abilities... *big grin*...
When I was 14 I wanted to have invisibility so I could sneak into the girl's shower room unseen. Five years later I wanted a penis that could go all night. Five years after that was the ability to drink beer by the gallon. And now, I just wish my farts didn't stink so much.
But seriously, the ability to give my loved ones a life of a hundred years devoid of any health and financial problems.
Lol. That's a fascinating evolution of your wishes.
@ Seek3R
The crazy part is that the first paragraph offers a realistic reflection in my lifestyle and desires.
My hypothetical choice of a super power would be time travel to any point of my choosing at any time. With that I could achieve just about everything else. (Unlimited money, immortality, save the world, etc.)
Of course time travel like that would be one heck of a power. Even in fiction such a concept breaks down as "too powerful" for their to even be a working fictional story.
It is a fun, if useless thought though, I would wipe out all the major religions of today at the dawn of their origins. Heck I could easily make myself the "god." As I would have essentially god like powers.
You know that is one superpower which really makes me think again whether I should go with healing hands. Your last paragraph is like a replication of my mind's exact wishes and thoughts i.e. how I want to go back to a specific time and wipe out a religion completely.
Yeah, I think if you can time travel, you could pretty much prevent diseases too as you'd be able to go to a time when it didn't happen.
Also, when I think about some embarrassing moments of my life, just about anything you know e.g. reacting stupidly back when I was in high school or saying something I shouldn't have said, I feel like time travelling would allow me to go back, relive that moment but this time my reaction and response would be different.
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Well, I am changing my choice from healing hands to TIME TRAVEL because I realize going back to a time when a potential problem hadn't happened is the best way to solve it, considering that when you time travel you are able to retain some part of knowledge about that problem which is yet to happen in he future.
I would accept super ape aiming power. That way I would not keep missing my targets and smacking Tin in the back of the head with errant flings of poo.
@Cog Re: "That way I would not keep missing my targets and smacking Tin in the back of the head with errant flings of poo."
Oooooh.... Is THAT what that has been all this time?... *deep sigh of relief*... Geez! I'm so glad you cleared that up for me. Thought I was going crazy. I'd be walking along at random times and feel a soft *thud* on the back of my head and wonder, "What the hell was that?" But every time I turned around to see what might have caused it, all I would see was a pile of poo on the ground behind me. And I would think, "Phew! Lucky I didn't step in that." But I have never been able to figure out what was thumping the back of my head. Now it makes perfect sense. You see, I have a super-slick Teflon coating that helps prevent rusting when I get caught in the rain. Apparently, the poo would hit the back of my head and immediately slide off and fall to the ground. Wow! Such a relief to finally know the reason for the "mystery thuds" after all this time... *wiping brow with back of hand*...
OK forget the juggling fantasy. When i was younger, after exposure to Dr Who, I thought time control, not travel would be the ticket. No messing with past or future...weell maybe messing a lil bit.
Stop and start, or slow time. Rewind is a form of time travel so I discounted that. The plan, stop time, as required, go to every shopping centre (pre computer pre credit card days, cash only) and remove just a few bucks from each cash register. In a 24 hour period of stopped time one could accumulate a sizable amount of cash, to spend or hoard however you wanted. Repeat as necessary. The small amounts of missing cash would help evade detection. Different day different shops. I was fifteen and desired a lot of material stuff.
Alternatively stopping time also allowed you opportunity to do a hell of a lot of exam answering ie read question, stop time, check out answers in library (no computers then) write detailed essays in record time, top classes, win scholarships, get well paid positions.
Just stopping time had a lot of potential for an amoral fifteen year old and the financial gain more effective than being just being invisible and creeping about in girl's changerooms.
Now I'm well over the other side of 60 time control holds even greater value as a fantasy.
Oh and I would use my power to bring about world peace and move Tin out of Cog's range.
@Grinseed Re: "Oh and I would use my power to bring about world peace and move Tin out of Cog's range."
Hey, thanks, Grin! That's mighty swell of you! And I'm just happy that I have never turned around unexpectedly during one of those errant poo flings.
Even though you might find yourself a little less poo covered, you'd need to prepare yourself Tin for the jarring shock of suddenly finding yourself several feet from where you were once standing. And then you might need to do some emergency sidestepping if I place you in the path of Old Man's tricycle. Maybe I should just put you in the girls change room?
@Grin Re: "Maybe I should just put you in the girls change room?"
Heeeeeey.... *scratching chin thoughtfully*... Now that is one of the best ideas I have heard yet. Yep, you may be on to something there. Coincidentally, I just recently had a towel-warmer upgrade installed. No doubt I could be very useful in there.
I would like the power to appear as god to every believer in every religion as a giant face in the clouds. I would proclaim in a voice as loud as thunder, "I don't care about you. I don't want to be worshiped. At the end of this message I'll cease to exist and you'll be on your own. Now grow up and fuck off."
Though I do wonder how many idiots would reply "How shall we fuck off, oh lord?"
Well, I was going to say invisibility, but I don't want to be considered evil.
I was thinking of it more in a reporting context. Sneak into places to hear what powerful people really say behind close doors and expose their hypocrisy.
Or, break into terrorist cells and expose their plans so they can be interrupted.
That kind of thing.
Oh, and rob the occasional bank, gotta have funds to do the others.
I wanna be a Tin Man. Impervious to idiotic comments. Able to leap manhole covers in a single bound or be melted down and remolded into sex toys. Faster than a lava flow, and easily cleaned with chrome polish.
@Cog Re: "I wanna be a Tin Man."
Okay, all those other wonderful benefits aside, you DO NOT want the burden of the chrome polish expenses. They are outrageous! Trust me, you would probably start crying and require therapy if I told you some of the things I've had to do before just to make the payments... *shudder*...
My usual answer for this is the ability to levitate or fly but considering my mental health right now I would say a foolproof bullshit detection
I would choose no 4:
"4) Healing hands (I like this one. You could cure anything, and probably stay young forever too by curing your body, wrinkles, skin elasticity, body functioning etc. You could also, in a way, be nearly immortal as you could heal yourself after any lethal event e.g. you get shot by a gun, or get stabbed etc.)"
I would also change my name to Jesus, & tell everybody I have returned. That will also take care of no. 6, infinate money, because people will be throwing money at me. I would then donate the money to worthwhile causes.
ANY super power.?
After much thinking, I've decided on cold war Russia.
@Cranky Re: "After much thinking, I've decided on cold war Russia."
Hmmm.... Good point. No doubt we would have MUCH better quality vodka, at least.