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...This American Life! I was listening to the episode about superpowers, and one of the first intros was this guy talking about how instead of engaging in stupid small talk, he liked to ask people about whether they would prefer invisibility or flight as their one and only superpower.
(Want to decide for yourself, before hearing arguments for either side? Do it now, it's fun!)
I posed the question to Other, and he said flight. I myself picked invisibility. Other said that most people probably would choose invisibility so they could steal stuff.
And you may not believe me, but stealing stuff never even entered my calculation of which superpower I would choose. My calculation went like this:
1) Well, both would be cool. If you flew, you could get places fast, but if you were invisible, you wouldn't have to talk to people you didn't want to talk to.
2) AND, if you were able to fly, people could shoot at you and bring you down.
3) AND, if you were invisible, when you got on the bus, all the people wouldn't look up at you, because they wouldn't know you were there.
So invisibility it is. I'm not sure why the inability of people to shoot me entered my calculations. It's not like I get shot at on a regular, semi-regular, or ever-in-my-life kind of basis. I do indeed get looked at, though, and it sucks.
Forever ago, someone told me the theory that fears come out of ways that you died in past lives. So I figured, since I've never felt claustrophobia, I wasn't ever buried alive. If that's true, I guess I was either bitten by a huge spider, or shot out of the air.
Maybe I was a duck.
(Want to decide for yourself, before hearing arguments for either side? Do it now, it's fun!)
I posed the question to Other, and he said flight. I myself picked invisibility. Other said that most people probably would choose invisibility so they could steal stuff.
And you may not believe me, but stealing stuff never even entered my calculation of which superpower I would choose. My calculation went like this:
1) Well, both would be cool. If you flew, you could get places fast, but if you were invisible, you wouldn't have to talk to people you didn't want to talk to.
2) AND, if you were able to fly, people could shoot at you and bring you down.
3) AND, if you were invisible, when you got on the bus, all the people wouldn't look up at you, because they wouldn't know you were there.
So invisibility it is. I'm not sure why the inability of people to shoot me entered my calculations. It's not like I get shot at on a regular, semi-regular, or ever-in-my-life kind of basis. I do indeed get looked at, though, and it sucks.
Forever ago, someone told me the theory that fears come out of ways that you died in past lives. So I figured, since I've never felt claustrophobia, I wasn't ever buried alive. If that's true, I guess I was either bitten by a huge spider, or shot out of the air.
Maybe I was a duck.
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