Superhero

If I could be a superhero, I know exactly what I'd want my power to be.


Reading minds.

It's true. I legitimately love getting into people's heads and figuring them out, figuring out what's going on up there.

Maybe that's why I'm a psychology major.

This isn't some weird sick pleasure. I like knowing because I care about you people. I just like understanding the human psyche and how it affects what we do. And, in turn, maybe I can help. Maybe. Hopefully.

I just feel like being able to read minds automatically instead of always trying to dig deeper would be so much more convenient. It would save the trouble of actually spending time and getting to know a person...sheesh! What a drag! (facetious)

So it will come as no surprise to you when we had Superhero Tuesday for dinner at camp, that I became Synapse, the evil villain who can read minds. I wish I had pictures to show you, as I'm sure I was a sight to behold. I put my hair up in crazy ponytails, tied a brightly-colored scarf around my neck as a cape, put on crazy, bold makeup, and carried a slinky around, holding it an arch and moving the ends up and down obsessively while I stared at people.

But Synapse was not the only Superhero (or super villain, in that case) I became this summer.

The next time Superhero Tuesday came around, I was PopTab Princess, clad in my many pop tab belts wrapped around my various limbs, and fighting crime by expelling pop tabs out of my hands/fingers.

The last week of camp, a last-minute revelation transformed me into Captain Hygiene. A shower cap on the top of my head, a towel as my cape, a loufa around my wrist, a toothbrush and Q-tips stuck into my ponytail of dreads, and carrying a tube of toothpaste, which I would dramatically "squirt" into people's unclean, unbrushed mouths. I was valiant indeed.

I don't remember that many other people's superhero entities, but I remember Caroline's dressing up in pajamas and saving the world from homesickness, and Sarah's dressing and walking all backwards, saving the world from logic.

Now.
Here's my question for you.

If you have ever dressed up as a superhero, what/who was it?
-or-
If you were to dress up as a superhero, what/who would it be?
-or-
What would your ideal superpower be?

Go.


God bless.