My husband and I have recently gotten into watching Heroes. I know what you’re thinking – took us long enough, didn’t it? Well, better late than never. We’ve been watching it on those rare evenings when neither of us is working and have managed to make it partway into season three already. We hope to catch up completely by the end of the season so we can start watching it on TV like everyone else in the free world next year.

Tonight, we watched the episode where Mohinder injects himself with his fancy superpower serum, thinking it will give him his own set of powers and got to thinking about what type of superpower we would like to have.

I’m not interested in anything destructive, like zapping people with electricity or sucking all the oxygen out of a room. I mean, I’m not looking to become a super villian or anything. Although, it might be cool to be able to nuke my own food, like if my coffee went cold on me and I didn’t feel like walking down to the microwave to heat it up. And the oxygen thing would have it’s upside.  I could be a famous firefighter or something. But still, as far as superpowers go, they’re pretty low on my list…

At first, I thought telekinesis would be pretty awesome. I mean, who wouldn’t want to be able to move something with their mind? But then I thought that telekinesis would just enable me to be even lazier than I am already. I could clean my entire house without getting off the couch. I’d probably stop moving entirely and end up being one of those immobile jelly bean people in Wall-E. Besides, I already have my kids trained to find the remote and bring it to me when necessary.

So, telekinesis is out.

Maybe self-healing? It would certainly stop me from worrying about randomly falling down the stairs and accidentally poking my eye out with sharp objects. But, then, I wouldn’t have a fancy Hyundai symbol scar on my left hand (and, yes, it’s still there, clear as day, three months later.)

Besides, I wouldn’t want to live forever. How many times can you watch all of your friends and family grow old and die without you before it becomes a major buzzkill?

So self-healing is out.

I think, for me, it would come down to flying or manipulating time. While I think flying would be pretty awesome for obvious reasons, I’d probably go with manipulating time. Just imagine everything you could get done in a day. Stop time for awhile and clean the house. Or exercise. Heck, take a nap! Oh, the naps. I’d be napping all the time…

Yes, definitely time manipulation. I could definitely use a few more hours in every day.

If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why?

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