Month: October 2004

If you were offered to choose one and only one super power, what would you choose and why?

This is a thought that has crossed my mind more than once since my childhood, and I guess everytime I’d have a new answer depending on the new cool superhero comic or cartoon I was into.

But now, when I think of it, the 2 most tempting super powers for me are flying and being invisible. And having to choose only one, I’d choose Invisibility.
Of course not just normal invisibility, no I’d also have to be able to walk through walls and stuff.

The ability to become invisible is so much more powerful than most people would think. It means you’d be able to go wherever you want, do whatever you want, see whatever you want without anyone knowing.

It means freedom beyond any degree of freedom a normal human being could enjoy.

It means so much power without anybody knowing where it’s coming from.

For example, If I could become invisible, I’d pick myself up right now, walk into the airport, go aboard a flight to the US, go to NASA, take a space shuttle for a little spin around earth, get back in time to change the results of the US elections then come home to blog about it 😉

Now, that’s cool…

Of course, after a while, I’d grow a bit bored of it, and so I would start thinking of maybe helping people using my super natural gift 😛

It’s that little voice in the back of your mind telling you:

– It’s ok, no one’s looking, just do it!
– Oh come on, just this once isn’t going to mean anything!
– Just one last time, come on!
– You know you want to, so what’s the point in torturing yourself?!
– Go ahead, just rip his head off, no one will notice!
– Tell him to go **** himself!
– It’s ok, it’s a simple tiny white lie, nobody’s gonna get hurt.
– No, don’t help him! Nobody would help you if you were in his place.
– Leave that good deed till later, there must be something interesting to see on TV. That documentary on Pig fat isn’t that boring after all.
– Look at what they’re doing, don’t they just deserve to die. Kill them, kill them!
– There goes another punk crossing the street without looking. Hit him, hit him!
– Hey, nobody’s looking. You can look now 😉
– Yummy…
– Oh if you just weren’t (fill blank), you could (fill corresponding blank).
– Whether it’s right or wrong depends on how you look at it.
– The concept of good and evil is a man-created illusion.
– Forget about body fat, that food is too good to waste.

And the list goes on…
Each and everyone of us has his own personal devil.
So, what else does your personal devil tell you?