If I Were Super.

I've played this game with a lot of people over the years. Feel free to respond.

If you could have a super-power, what would it be?

Flight. The more I live, biking through the city, catching the bus or rides with friends, the more I walk alongside everyone else living in what can be a horribly banal world, my answer becomes more and more firm--I want to fly. Sometimes when the weather is nice (it happens if you're not paying attention, I swear) I look up into the fair-weather sky--you know the kind, with nothing but wisps of clouds--and I realize just how BIG the sky is. I think about shooting through all that bigness, wind trying to catch me, trying to say, "Hey! Wait! You're not supposed to..." and then I'm gone. I imagine looking down at everything that's familiar and mundane, but from up there it would look magical, somehow--and for the people looking back up at me, it'd be the same. Only one thing changed, one man hanging there in the middle of the sky, but it makes all the difference.

It used to be teleportation. I'm enough of a comic book fan to even take a limit to it, that I could only teleport to places I can think of, visualize in my mind. I'd never have to get up early to get anywhere. I could see anything I wanted, I could make money moving things around, or steal what I needed or wanted. I would be unstoppable.

But, for the sheer wonder of it, flight wins. There's a reason a popular movie used the motto, "You'll Believe a Man Can Fly!"

~j