If you could have one super power,
what would it be?
Understand you get only one power
and nothing else changes.
So if, for example, you want to run
faster than a speeding locomotive, you can. You can run at top speed like The Flash for just as long as
you can run at your top speed right now. You’d cover more ground but you
couldn’t run for a longer period of time.
If, instead, you want to run for a
longer duration, you can have that power but your typical running speed would
be the same as now. You could
cover more ground but you wouldn’t win any more sprints than before.
You can have X-ray vision for as
long as you can go without blinking right now. Ditto for night vision. Would you be satisfied with glimpses?
Strength or endurance. Endurance or
strength. Not both. Lift a car and
hold it in the air over your head like Superman for as long as you can hold up
the heaviest weight you can lift as ordinary you. Or continue past your current
ability to hold aloft something as heavy as the weight you can press overhead under
ordinary circumstances.
How about flying through the air?
Sounds good, of course keep in mind you can fly in the air just as fast as you
can walk along the ground. You carry
something with you for as long as you can carry the same thing while walking. And
you’d better hope it doesn’t rain. Lightning would be frightening.
Read minds? User beware. I don’t recommend that one. At all.
What’s your choice?
