justprompts , I'm already a superhero type thing...thanks.
You've been given twenty-four hours to be a superhero. What's your power? What are you going to do with it? Seriously?
I got asked this question the other day by some maniac drunk person. It made me laugh, and then I kind of freaked him out a little bit. I laughed because I was amused, and then I laughed because…it was already my life, to a certain extent. Yeah, it was irony at its best.
So you know what I asked the guy? I asked him if he was serious. I asked him if it was a prank. Some random drunk guy, randomly picking the person that has the most potential to be a superhero in New York City. Am I really just that freaking lucky? He said no, and that he really wanted to know. I think it was a lame attempt at hitting on me, but who knows now a days. I don’t have the most stellar history in men, or the dating world as we know it now. Or maybe it’s just a casual conversation with normal people.
If I am to talk to any stranger about my life, I guess it had better be a person that doesn’t have the capacity to really remember the whole story. It’s going to be a drunk person, or no one at all I guess. So I talked to him like a person talks to a psychiatrist. Well, a person who has enough issues to not want to talk, so they make it kind of in their own language. Make it so it’s the run around. I actually kind of feel bad for the guy if he remembers a little of my speech. Poor guy. Good thing I’ll never have to see him again and see the look that he would give me if I passed him. Oh, so what did the jist of the conversation go as? Something like this:
“I would choose nothing. I want to be mediocre and normal, you know, have you ever thought that maybe being just normal is good enough?....”
Yadda yadda yadda. Oops, bad call Buffy.
I guess that was my inner Buffy self telling me that I should either get out more or that maybe I should start talking to Giles more than I have been. I’ll take the ladder. It’s funny - I think if I was absolutely forced to choose a power, though, my end answer would probably be the superhero strength thing. What a boring answer, right? I don’t know. It’s worked out for me pretty well. But the moral of this story is: Think about who you’re asking that question to. Sometimes normal and naïve can seriously be a good thing.
I got asked this question the other day by some maniac drunk person. It made me laugh, and then I kind of freaked him out a little bit. I laughed because I was amused, and then I laughed because…it was already my life, to a certain extent. Yeah, it was irony at its best.
So you know what I asked the guy? I asked him if he was serious. I asked him if it was a prank. Some random drunk guy, randomly picking the person that has the most potential to be a superhero in New York City. Am I really just that freaking lucky? He said no, and that he really wanted to know. I think it was a lame attempt at hitting on me, but who knows now a days. I don’t have the most stellar history in men, or the dating world as we know it now. Or maybe it’s just a casual conversation with normal people.
If I am to talk to any stranger about my life, I guess it had better be a person that doesn’t have the capacity to really remember the whole story. It’s going to be a drunk person, or no one at all I guess. So I talked to him like a person talks to a psychiatrist. Well, a person who has enough issues to not want to talk, so they make it kind of in their own language. Make it so it’s the run around. I actually kind of feel bad for the guy if he remembers a little of my speech. Poor guy. Good thing I’ll never have to see him again and see the look that he would give me if I passed him. Oh, so what did the jist of the conversation go as? Something like this:
“I would choose nothing. I want to be mediocre and normal, you know, have you ever thought that maybe being just normal is good enough?....”
Yadda yadda yadda. Oops, bad call Buffy.
I guess that was my inner Buffy self telling me that I should either get out more or that maybe I should start talking to Giles more than I have been. I’ll take the ladder. It’s funny - I think if I was absolutely forced to choose a power, though, my end answer would probably be the superhero strength thing. What a boring answer, right? I don’t know. It’s worked out for me pretty well. But the moral of this story is: Think about who you’re asking that question to. Sometimes normal and naïve can seriously be a good thing.