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on wishing to fly
Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to fly?
I’ve wanted to be able to fly since as long as I could remember. I don’t mean flying in a aeronautical vehicle; I mean actually physics-defying flying. To be able to fly is like complete physical freedom: no limitations, no cages, no restraints. just the freedom to soar, to glide, spiral, dip and loop-d-loop.
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Of course, you would have to watch out for airliners, birds, large bugs, and the occasional experimental, top-secret government aircraft. So you’d need ‘invulnerability’ in order not to get hurt too bad when coming across these air-bound objects. But then, since your invulnerability combined with your speed in the air might damage an airliner full of passengers should you actually collide, you’d probably need super-strength to carry the plane to a safe landing.
But then, having the powers of flight, invulnerability, and super-strength, you’d totally need some sort of comfortable outfit for your feats of flying and saving planes. Something that doesn’t need too much washing, preferably made from indestructible, alien material and is brightly-colored, easily recognizable from afar. You’d probably have to wear some sort of plain-clothes disguise as well while you’re doing your normal run-of-the-mill stuff like getting a coffee or bagel - this would probably something like a hat and/or glasses, because you couldn’t walk around all the time as your super-self. It could get really annoying being all mobbed every where you go, especially if they’ve spotted you in the sky, flying around in your brightly colored suit, saving planes and stuff.
So after all that, you’d most definitely find yourself in the role of the “guy who should come to rescue when no one else can because he’s got super powers”. And you’d end doing a lot of dangerous things, and of course, there’ll always be some wacko genius that got their experiment destroyed during one of your superhero savior spectacles, and they’d get all embittered by their loss because of you. Perhaps as a result of this, they’d get mutated and/or enhanced by the destruction of their experiment, so then you’d have a super-villain thing on your hands, on top of saving the world.
This super-genius villain would make a life’s mission to find your weakness and then always use it to the advantage of his nefarious schemes.
Oh and forget about the whole ‘falling in love’ with that spunky co-worker or friend of yours, because once your arch-nemesis finds out who that is, you may as well start picking out her casket if you’re gonna start saving the world and entering into a courtship.
and then family?? holy heck, you’d constantly be worried that the super-villain was gonna mess with them.
crud. you know what? forget flying. I’m good with being average and mild-mannered.
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