I have this super power too.

This one, this particular piece of possibly nonsensical text may prove to be a little extra dimensional. It may take more than a single conscious effort at reading to grasp its entire essence. In fact at the risk of sounding like a bit over confidant, I assure you a definite second read. Read carefully and you’ll know for yourself.

This one is about super powers. To be specific it’s about this single most popular super power in the entire world. But more about that later. First of all I would like to draw out some consequences of having a super power and/or being a super hero. Here goes:

Envy towards those with special abilities is more real than the special ability itself. I mean it’s easier to attract envy then to grow powers that aren’t common. Pretense and pretense alone is enough to make others feel the urge to be less like themselves and more like the one with all the super powers. Don’t mistake this statement for being child centric. It’s very general, crossing boundaries of age, sex, religion and nature. No matter how good you are, you’ll always envy what you are not: our superhero.

A sad implication of being the one with some super power is the fact that you are very unlikely to find and then sustain any friends. Friendship is the cause and a direct consequence of a functional social setting. It is through friends that one enjoys interaction with new people. And it is through these refreshing interactions that one grows more friends. It’s an old social process working in cycles and in most cases reaching a saturation point in the first quarter of life. Obviously the key to all this is the participation and practice of social protocols. That’s something less obvious to people with powers, specially this one power that I’ll come around in a bit.

An even sadder reality is how often the prospect of romance ceases to just dreams and fantasies for this brand of super heroes. Finding love is like losing weight. It demands constant efforts, often involves fighting all your natural instincts and it actually requires you to lose weight. Hence it’s not as simple as a search, it’s as hard as a pursuit. And what’s the most fundamental ability needed for any pursuit? Persistence. Persistence is static. Our super heroes are not. So long story short, our super hero is not someone to be jealous of after all.

Social alienation, public disapproval and loneliness at personal levels are only some of the perks of being the possessor of this particular super power. In a nutshell, having this super power forces you to be different. Different from normal, fringing near lunacy, being eccentric. In fact, being awkwardly different is the super power I had in mind throughout. Read again (starting with the title), this time bearing this new and rather sober revelation in mind and I hope you’ll see how this whole article fits so perfectly for a weirdo.