In A New Direction

This morning, as I sat in Basic Statistics (trying desperately not to fall asleep) , I pondered the human senses. This was spurred by the smell of perfume, coming from the girl sitting beside me, that was ever so delicately flirting with my nose . It was a pleasant mix of Sensuality and Amber, a Sensual Amber if you will. As I took in the scent, it occurred to me how often we take our senses for granted as well as how we never really get to isolate a specific sense. In light of this fact im going to do a little Meditation Series on the senses. I will be doing my best to take each sense and isolate it as best I can for 30 minutes. Stupid and completely unnecessary...yes. Worth it to me...most definitely. If only to gain a better understanding of each sense as whole or catch something new or exciting that I never had before then it is more than worth it. Ill be writing a separate post for each sense so this may be a week or two long process. We shall see

I can fly....but only 5mph

Super powers. Ever person on the planet at some point or another has thought to themselves, "wouldn't it be great if it could...." The fact of the matter is super powers would be the coolest ish ever. What if you could just fly over to class, or you could superspeed run home from you college to your home town in like 3 minutes. Or you could bring your cup of water over to you from across the room. The list of cool things you could do with super powers is nearly endless really.

But then you start to think about it, what if you could fly, but only 5 miles an hour? Would that even be worth it, you can pretty much walk faster than that. Not to mention it wouldn't exactly be convenient. Honest answer is yes of course you would still fly. But it was that question that made me start to think about super powers limits. You've got comic book heroes that can lift a bus over there head and are the size of a spider man or something. Then theres the super muscular brawler guy, who is super strong but can only pick up a large truck. Its like how would you dictate how strong(or fast you could super run or fly, etc...) you would be. Is it like a muscle that you would start out and you could work it out to improve it? A friend turned me onto a comic book called Invincible a few weeks ago and it dealt with that very thought. He pushes his powers to the limit to help work them out. Is that true for the standard guys like superman and spiderman too? If humans somehow evolve to the point(not likely) that they develop superhuman abilities, would there be levels? Then there is the question of who would have what ability and why. If everyone had abilities would there be those who could fly faster and just do more?

I know, i know, some people who read this will say, "do you think about this stuff often?" To them I say, hell yes I do. Ever friggin day. Im still sad I haven't all of a sudden found out I can shoot mind bullets or move stuff with my mind, and every day I try. But what if I actually did. The realistic consequences of that possibility hit me one day. In Xmen the regular folk fear the mutants. Why? BECAUSE THEY CAN SHOOT LASERS OUT OF THEIR EYES!!!! Lets be honest if that happened in real life, I would probably piss myself in fear. I would think thats really freaking cool, poop my pants, and run the other direction screaming like a little sissy girl. It would be scary as crap and just like in the comics there would be bad people who used those powers for evil, except millions more people would die first. Its a scary thought and one that makes me realize that even if the government or some scientist figured out a way to give people powers, that would probably be the worst idea of all time. A gun in the right hands, a tool for justice. A gun in the wrong hands, innocent people dying.

So as much as I wish I could fly, or read minds, or even talk to fish(sorry aquaman, but your still a bitch). I know its just a childish fantasy. One that I will never give up on and never stop dreaming about.