A few of my Super Powers

I realised when I was just a kid that I had ‘super powers’.    It was very creepy in a way because it was as if I could see things that ‘weren’t there’ and ‘hear things’ no one else did.

These are the super powers of ‘observing’ and ‘listening’.

Most people don’t observe.   A person is in front of them, and maybe they can describe the hair style or eye colour but they don’t really see the person.

They can’t tell if the person is distraught or happy, interested or bored, anxious or relaxed.   I can.   That is because I observe the person.   Later on someone might say something about the person and I, without thinking blurt and of course, everyone will jump in my face; “How do you know!”  and instantly dismiss it.

That’s a third super power, I’ll describe soon.

As to listening, most people are so interested in what they are going to say, they don’t hear what the other person is saying.  They don’t get the innuendos, they don’t hear between the words, they don’t get the tone of voice.   And because they don’t observe, they don’t read the body language.

So, here is a woman, asking the clerk if he could help her.   He doesn’t realise she’s  a breath from a scream, that she is using every bit of control to keep it together, and that what she needs may mean nothing in a large picture but is central to her life at this moment in time.

So I tell the clerk to help her in a strong order kind of voice.   He gives me a glance as if,  why?  but he does it.

Later he returns with that look in his face, because he realises now what I saw then.

On top of these two, there’s the one I mentioned before; that no one believes me.    If you are about to hire a scammer and I tell you he is a scammer, you will hire him twice as quick, he’ll rip you twice as much.   And you will never turn to me and thank or question or admit you should have listened.

This happens all the time.

Every other blue moon, someone will listen, and act.  But in most cases, I will see the danger, I will speak, the person I am speaking to will slap aside my words and proceed to destruction.

This has caused the rise of my third super power, silence.

I have learned to power of silence.  To say nothing, to lock myself in my own ‘bubble’ and not respond.

Learning I was a vegetarian, Louise jumps up in my face to shout about how she can eat anything.  I look at her and am silent.

I don’t say, “I don’t care if you eat your relatives,”  I think it.

Many times people have tried to ‘pull my tongue’, that is get me to say something.  I can be silent.  Being silent I can display more contempt and more power, than a trailer load of words.

Another secret power I have is night vision.  I don’t expose my eyes to sunlight without darkers and can see very well in low light.  I can see when other people can only perceive blackness because they have destroyed their retinas by not protecting their eyes from the brilliant sun.

So, I can look at a person and see them, hear their words and listen, know they will not believe what I tell them, and if it suits me, be dead silent, and walk in the dark without difficulty.

These are my super powers.