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I'm at work, and I'm bored. It's only 10:20am, I've been here since 8:25am and I won't have a class to teach until 2:30pm. What fun. Trying to kill *some* time, I decided to blog. Yes, something I haven't done in awhile, I know. Thousand apologies.

A couple of days ago, June and I were fantasizing what super powers we'd want. Naturally, we had different answers but this conversation shot me back to a thousand moments I've had over the course of my schooling days.

I'd want, and always have, the ability to manipulate time.

Why bend time? Why not X-Ray vision or supersonic speed or invisibility, etc. Minus the fact that most of them belong to Superman or whomever in a Marvel comic, think about it, to be able to slow time down and speed it up would be infinitely beneficial to one.

Exams around the corner? SLOW DOWN (to study). Sardined in traffic? SPEED UP (to get it over and done with). Nothing to do for hours at work? ZOOM. Already a Sunday afternoon? SCREEEEECH!! (no explanation necessary).

Impending Italian holiday next week? :P

Zoom Zoom Zoom!!

Unfortunately, despite it being more convenient, there would be two things I'd be concerned with having such power.

Firstly, I'd get impatient. Well, actually, I can get quite impatient at times (mostly on the road heh heh) but if I knew I didn't have to wait around for something to git done, as the corporate speak goes, I'd maximize full potential time utilization and minimize time wastage! Think of all the other things I could be willingly wasting my time on! Like getting all impatient and taking a trip to the future and seeing, just for curiousity's sake, where'd I'd be in 10 years. Would I be married? Have had kids? Drive some super power Lamborghini? Own Apple? Hah! Tempting, isn't it?

Also, I reckon I'd get rather evil. Evil? What? It's just bending time, you squeak. I bet a gazillion gummy bears that there are god knows how many kids, come exam time, would love to bring time to a halt and casually walk up to the smartest kid's desk and take a peek. Or two. Or just a very long one. Oh, how I have fantasized as an average student! ;)

It would be easier to rob a bank. Sabotage a friend/colleague/boss/dog/whomever--not that I'd do it. Well, not now anyway, since I don't have an inkling of a radioactive spider's bite. I probably won't do it, but on the other hand, we are talking about me being possibly evil here. Heeee.

I'd be screwing with the widely popular/accepted philosophy; you can't be perfect. Not that having this ability would make me perfect, but to be able to go back in time and rectify all the mistakes I've ever done, I'd be imposing perfection on self. This could equally backfire, I could end up being totally nonchalant about my actions. So what, right? I can just go back and re-do everything.

I think having this super power would no doubt be amazing. However, I think in the end, it would just end up doing more damage than the initial convenience because really, I am only human, and we're a flawed species.

Sulz, what'd you pick?