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If you could have only one superpower, what would it be?
People get asked that question all the time, but hardly anyone I've asked has a logical answer. I'm surprised by how often people answer flying, because when you really stop to think about it, flying is dangerous as hell. Just figuring out how to do it right would more then likely the involve slamming into a building, so you'd probably be dead or badly injured in the first ten minutes. Best-case scenario you'd get some other power to go along with it - like turning into liquid if you hit a slab of pavement doing ninety.
But then, adding something else into the mix is more then the question allows for.
If you could have only one superpower, what would it be?
Invisibility has a lot going for it. It's not the sort of superpower that would automatically get you hurt and seriously, there are some sweet way you could put that kind of talent to good use: the girls locker room, gathering dirt on overbearing teachers, tripping people... But you're not getting invisible clothes to go with your invisibility. Getting use to walking around in the buff 24/7 would be damn hard to do. I'd die of stress just thinking about having my skills fail me while trying to escape from KFC with a bucket of chicken.
And this brings up another huge problem. Temptation.
Say you get lucky and somehow the invisibility power comes with a set of invisible clothes. You'd be on the dark side before you could curl your toes and count to ten. Nobody i hang out with could into a Kmart totally invisible and leave without stealing video games, DVDs, and cans of Red Bull up the wazoo. If you can hide it under your invisible jacket, you're taking it. And that's not a superpower, that's a lose-your-soul-to-the-devil power. I should know - I got to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.
Reading minds? That one blows from the word go. Listening to the crap going through the minds of all the idiots at my school all day? No, thanks.
Throwing balls of fire, time travel, nunchuck skills... blah blah blah. I've worked my way through every superpower there is and found them all wanting for one or another. The truth is that every power, no matter how amazing, is loaded with trouble of the worst kind.

 

i don't care what you think anymore.
i will not let anyone tell me what to
believe in, nor what to do. I'm old
enough to make my own decisions,
even if some times those decisions
turn into mistakes, it's something i
have to over come by myself. don't
blame anyone else for them, because
your the one who wanted it at one
stage. yeah it would be nice if one
day someone could un-fhuck the world
but as much as we wish for that it
isn't going to happen. so be happy
with what you have and treasure the
good times because tomorrow might
be your last. don't judge me by the
way i dress or how i act because you
don't know half my story. here's to the
future because im done with the past.

Down the basemeant
^{Lock the cellar door}
And baby,
Ta lk dirty to me ;)

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