Elizabeth Honeycutt
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Diagnostic Essay
“With great power comes great responsibility,” words spoken by Spiderman, a great superhero of the Marvel comics, words which should kept in mind with having the superpower of mind reading. If I had to choose my superpower it would be mind reading, it’s not as world saving as if I could produce 6 course meals by sneezing, but I would want to be able to know what people were thinking just by standing or focusing on them. This power seems rather nosy and would invade a lot of people’s personal space but in the long run it could be very useful, to me. If I had the power to read peoples minds, I would be able to tear down censorship and avoid lying while still using it to help people.
A pet peeve of mine is censorship; Like when people won’t tell you what they’re thinking or avoiding questions, but mind reading can prevent all of that. If I did have the superpower, I defiantly would want to be around a lot of people, well not too many because I’m sure I would get a headache. But enough so I could read a lot of peoples thoughts and find out what I would need or like to. I want to be a psychiatrist when I graduate from a university, having the power to read peoples thoughts would make my job a lot easier than just waiting for them to tell me. I could tell them exactly what they were thinking when their life’s problems happened without them lying. But with all super powers there comes that one down fall, more than likely I would get annoyed with being able to read peoples mind especially if I walked past a group of hormonal high school boys. There are some thoughts or ideas that should be left unread or unspoken and with my luck I would stumble onto them.
I would appreciate the power and all the new found things I could do with it. I loathe being lied to or something being kept from me with a passion of a thousand burning suns. “The truth hurts”, but at least it would be good to know rather than hiding something. I remember when I was about 6 and I was talking to my mom about her divorce with my dad. I made the comment “but if you never met dad, you wouldn’t have had me”. I wish I did have the power to read minds then, because then I would have known that the silence that followed the comment, actually meant “sorry, you’re adopted, he’s not your dad”. But it always could be devastating having the power if you’re younger; if a four year old had the ability to read minds it would make the holiday season horrible for parents. The child finding out that once a year a fat man in red comes down the chimney is a lie and daddy’s money really bought the new Barbie under the tree. The truth has always been important in my eyes and that’s why I choose this superpower, everyone lies and I rather always know the truth. No matter what everyone deserves the truth no matter how horrible or little it is, like Santa Claus being a big sham that your parents tells you eventually people find out. Sadly I have no patience so the power of mind reading would hurry the truth process up quite a bit.
It could open so many job opportunities if the psychiatrist career doesn’t pan out now that the job recession is worst than ever. I could be a lawyer, a cop, or a psychic. I would be the best police interrogator and I could tell if a suspect is lying without the machine. I could be used to make technology ineffective when usually it’s the other way around in today’s world. I could be valuable to many corporations and people regardless if I’m using my superpower to get ahead in the career ladder. I would still find time to help other people with my superpowers not including that I still probably couldn’t be able to help an elderly women get her cat out of the tree like firemen.
I wouldn’t be as useful as Spiderman to people, but everyone needs a good psychiatrist now a days. I would be able to tell what everyone’s thinking even though most of the time I really wouldn’t care but it would help to know if I was being lied to. I never said that superpowers were made to help people but they would help me a great deal. I could be a lot less stress knowing the truth and avoiding censored thoughts, except from teenage boys, they should be censored.
111-45
Diagnostic Essay
“With great power comes great responsibility,” words spoken by Spiderman, a great superhero of the Marvel comics, words which should kept in mind with having the superpower of mind reading. If I had to choose my superpower it would be mind reading, it’s not as world saving as if I could produce 6 course meals by sneezing, but I would want to be able to know what people were thinking just by standing or focusing on them. This power seems rather nosy and would invade a lot of people’s personal space but in the long run it could be very useful, to me. If I had the power to read peoples minds, I would be able to tear down censorship and avoid lying while still using it to help people.
A pet peeve of mine is censorship; Like when people won’t tell you what they’re thinking or avoiding questions, but mind reading can prevent all of that. If I did have the superpower, I defiantly would want to be around a lot of people, well not too many because I’m sure I would get a headache. But enough so I could read a lot of peoples thoughts and find out what I would need or like to. I want to be a psychiatrist when I graduate from a university, having the power to read peoples thoughts would make my job a lot easier than just waiting for them to tell me. I could tell them exactly what they were thinking when their life’s problems happened without them lying. But with all super powers there comes that one down fall, more than likely I would get annoyed with being able to read peoples mind especially if I walked past a group of hormonal high school boys. There are some thoughts or ideas that should be left unread or unspoken and with my luck I would stumble onto them.
I would appreciate the power and all the new found things I could do with it. I loathe being lied to or something being kept from me with a passion of a thousand burning suns. “The truth hurts”, but at least it would be good to know rather than hiding something. I remember when I was about 6 and I was talking to my mom about her divorce with my dad. I made the comment “but if you never met dad, you wouldn’t have had me”. I wish I did have the power to read minds then, because then I would have known that the silence that followed the comment, actually meant “sorry, you’re adopted, he’s not your dad”. But it always could be devastating having the power if you’re younger; if a four year old had the ability to read minds it would make the holiday season horrible for parents. The child finding out that once a year a fat man in red comes down the chimney is a lie and daddy’s money really bought the new Barbie under the tree. The truth has always been important in my eyes and that’s why I choose this superpower, everyone lies and I rather always know the truth. No matter what everyone deserves the truth no matter how horrible or little it is, like Santa Claus being a big sham that your parents tells you eventually people find out. Sadly I have no patience so the power of mind reading would hurry the truth process up quite a bit.
It could open so many job opportunities if the psychiatrist career doesn’t pan out now that the job recession is worst than ever. I could be a lawyer, a cop, or a psychic. I would be the best police interrogator and I could tell if a suspect is lying without the machine. I could be used to make technology ineffective when usually it’s the other way around in today’s world. I could be valuable to many corporations and people regardless if I’m using my superpower to get ahead in the career ladder. I would still find time to help other people with my superpowers not including that I still probably couldn’t be able to help an elderly women get her cat out of the tree like firemen.
I wouldn’t be as useful as Spiderman to people, but everyone needs a good psychiatrist now a days. I would be able to tell what everyone’s thinking even though most of the time I really wouldn’t care but it would help to know if I was being lied to. I never said that superpowers were made to help people but they would help me a great deal. I could be a lot less stress knowing the truth and avoiding censored thoughts, except from teenage boys, they should be censored.
Gah... Where do the paragraphs begin and end?
ReplyDeleteI would, I would, I would, but where is the story? The narrative?
Great cartoon; obviously relevant to the post.