No cape for I

No cape for I

Now that I'm caught up with Heroes, I feel like I can share with you my secret: I have no super powers. I had a friend that once dreamed that his spiritual gift was The Force. He was super excited when he woke up, but then realized that it had just been a dream. It's a sad story. Anyway, watching Heros got me to thinking about what super powers I would want to have, you know, in case we have to battle the evil Pyramonster. So it's a top five list for you all.

five. Superhuman strength - This would be cool, as long as I could control it. I would attempt to harness it into some sort of running ability, but other than that I can't really think of what I would use it for. Also, I wouldn't have superhuman speed [like the Flash] to manipulate my running, because that would just be cheating.

four. Telekinesis - Occasionally I throw things into trees [discs, golf clubs, etc.], this would help with getting those down. Also, no need to interrupt a conversation to have someone pass me the salt. It would be fun and useful in a great many ways.

three. Flying - My mom has flying dreams fairly often. Every once in a while I dream that I'm gliding, as though traveling in zero gravity. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't ever want to fly above fifty feet or so. If I ever turned an ankle while running I could just fly back home. I would also use this ability to impress the female population.

two. Innate capability [the ability to learn things quickly] - Think Trinity in the Matrix, learning how to fly a helicopter or something. I would learn a lot of things. Languages, sports stats, memorizing literature and the Bible, music, historical facts, and on and on and on. This would also be used to impress the female population. Though I would be tempted to be really prideful and act like I knew everything ['cos I would], so I'd have to be careful about that.

one. Manipulation of the space/time continuum - Yeah, this would be fabulous. Lunch with Rachel in Japan? Tea with the Pai's in London? A midnight donut run with the Sanchezes in Portland? All possible as I manipulate the space continuum and visit my friends across the world at any time [I'd call first though]. Also terribly useful if running late. Since the space continuum is closely bound with the time continuum, I would have to have the ability to travel across time as well, but I probably wouldn't. I mean, it's pretty dangerous, and more than likely would create a temporal paradox, i.e. mess up history. Not good. So I would just stick to traveling instantaneously across the space continuum.

Super powers that I wouldn't have? Okay: Invisibility - this would come with to much temptation to do far too many things that I shouldn't do. Healing - yeah, it didn't really work out well for Wolverine. It would eventually grow old, especially if it allowed you not to age, but everyone around you did. Bad news. Telepathy - again, there would be far too much temptation to use the ability to read minds for my own benefit.

Waking up early is not a super power, but if it was I would want it. The problem I have with waking up early is that I always seem to convince myself that there is nothing to do at such an early time. But the past two days I've been able to convince myself to get out of bed and stretch and do some ab work, so that's good. I'm also going to go ahead and believe that there is no correlation between getting up before six and being ripped up by this cold. If immunibility to common colds and flus were a super power, I would definitely want it. Okay, here's to dreams that mean nothing but seem so real. you have my love.


Also, what should I read this winter? I was thinking War and Peace or The Idiot, but after Les Mis last year, I need something a bit lighter. Thanks for the input.