21. If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you do with it first?

When I first think of super powers, the basics come to mind – flying, super strength, invisibility, laser vision, sonic hearing – but when choosing which power I would want to have, I had to make sure I knew all the options available to myself. I didn’t want to short myself just because I couldn’t think of a cooler one. As with most everything now days, I did a Google search of Super Hero Powers. The first link, of course, was to Wikipedia. I don’t always rely on Wikipedia, but with a title of “List of Superhuman Features and Abilities in Fiction,” I thought that it would be an ok source.

I was flabbergasted! Who knew there were so many super powers in fiction works?! I’m so glad that I decided to view my options before picking!! The Wikipedia list had about 115 super powers! That’s way more than the 5 or 6 I could think of off the top of my head.

I won’t lie…some of those powers I didn’t really understand, some of them I didn’t really see the point in, and some of them sounded really awesome! It was hard to look at that list and think about which ONE I would want to have if I could.

I know this may sound crazy, but I did give this some thought. At first, I thought this would be an easy choice, but the more I thought about it, the harder it became. I think when the first X-Men movie came out was the first time that I ever really thought about how some of these super powers can cause heart ache, pain, and alienation. You don’t really think about that when watching Superman or Spiderman.  

In looking over that list, it was so much easier to knock out the ones that I would NOT want to have (and the ones that I didn’t really understand). I would not want to have something like omniscience, immortality or time travel. Although some times I wish I knew what other people were thinking, I’m sure most of the time, I’m glad that I don’t know. After seeing my grandmother out live most of her friends and family, I don’t think that immortality would that great either – think Edward Cullen here (Stop judging me! That’s all Leigh Ann’s fault!) And speaking of movies…can we say Time Traveler’s Wife?! No thank you!

I narrowed the field down and I think I’m going to go with…da da da….

Superhuman Speed.

The description on that one was “The ability to move, run, fly, react, think and sense at speeds much faster than a normal human. Those with this ability also have accelerated brain activity which allows them to process sensory information so fast that everything seems to be moving in slow motion while the user moves at normal speed.”

That sounds pretty good to me. How many times have you wished that you had more time to get things done or wish that you could get somewhere super fast? How many times do you think of how you should have reacted much later than you needed to?

Yeah, I think that would be a good one. What do you think?

hmm...what would I do with this super power first?! Well, I think the most responsible thing at this time would be to pack my house - super fast. I am working on it, but definitely not super fast! I could use some superhuman speed!