Super Power?

It's almost an age old question even though superhero has only been a word since the early 1900s. Every kid (or at least certainly every little boy) dreams of or plays games about. You draw pictures and read comics it becomes a little bit of an obsession. What super power would you have?

I genuinely don't know the answer to that when I think about it because I feel like I'd be cheating myself out of one power or another. When I was younger (and maybe even a little bit now) I would definitely have said I'd be like Spider-Man. I used to imagine myself web slinging through New York City and I honestly think the cartoon and the comic started my dream of visiting the Empire State Building, but now I'm older would I be the web-head?

I think that a lot of you would be thinking invisibility. No? Don't lie. I know it crossed my mind. Sneaking around perving on all the women you fancy. Yes, yes I know but at least I admit it. I'm just saying what you're all thinking and don't pretend I'm not. However you couldn't do that, it's not the superhero way to exploit ones powers for personal gain… So no farting in the faces of people you don't like either.

What about the power of flight? That's another popular one. I think this one would be really tempting for me. I would like to travel the world and visit all the places I see on TV or in films but I probably won't got to them all. How amazing would it be to be able to fly off somewhere and be back home for tee if you so choose. You could fly to the top of the great pyramid. You could go anywhere you wanted whenever you wanted. That my friends is freedom. That my friends is very tempting.

There are loads more like maybe being super fast. So fast nobody could catch you. So fast you could run on water if you wanted. You'd never be late for anything and that's always a bonus. Ever wake up and you're due to be in work in like ten minutes. Before you do anything you call them and say you'll be late. No more ladies and gentlemen, zoom, and you're there. There are more benefits that that but as it is I can't think of any…

But besides these singular powers, you know what I realised? On average, superheroes have more than one power. Now that's more like it. When you can add powers then things start to get really interesting. You start looking at the like of Superman and Thor and Captain America… I could go on but you'd probably have no idea who I was talking about.

Anyway, you have a couple of more choices now, as I mentioned earlier there is a superhero code. You cannot use your powers for personal gain, you cannot tell more than three people (it might be more than three but you'll find if you look into it that each hero has a few people that know their identity) that you have powers and you must use your powers to help others. Remember "With great power comes great responsibility".

What if you couldn't be bothered with all of that? I mean, it's a lot of effort isn't it. I mean, if I can fly its far more effort to not tell people than to just fly around isn't it. I mean if it's a big secret then it restricts the amount of flying I can actually do. On top of that, would I really help people? I'm quite lazy and just because I can fly doesn't mean that some jumped up, should-be-in-prison chav can't shoot me.

See what I mean? It's a lot of risk for no real gain. Read the comics, these superheroes are miserable and that's because they never think of themselves. I tell you something, if I were super strong the first thing I'd do is go to a bank and lift the safe out and spend me some money! What are they going to do? Arrest me? I'll just power out of that prison Hulk style. Grrrrrr!

So there you go. I would definitely be a bit selfish with my powers but I wouldn't like to choose them because I'd always want a different one. Just give me three good ones and I'll live with it. So what would you do? Do you think you'd be a goody too shoes? or would you be a bit devious and a bit selfish?

Where Have You Been?

Don't you think it's wierd when somebody you know goes away for a while and when they come back you realise just how much you actually missed them for in the first place? Or maybe the opposite is true and you yourself go away or take some time out and when you return to normality the world seems be welcoming you back with open arms?

So let me start by saying have you missed me? I bet you haven't, I have however missed all of you. I don't really know why I stopped posting recently, my tirade of one post a week seemed to dwindle away without any valid reason so I'm going to call it writers block.

You see as much as I don't like to admit, I am a man of routine. I like things to be structured, clear and organised. The problem is that I'm too lazy to sort my own routines and structure. What I need is a personal organiser. No not the kind of electronic device you may be thinking I can use my iPhone for, I'm thinking an actual person that can follow me around just to make sure I don't give in on my little routines and personal practices.

Here are some examples of what I do manage to do, I will always get up in the morning with enough time to shower before I head off for work. Obviously you will be thinking, why don't you just shower at night? And yes that may be time saving early in the am however I currently sleep (most nights) next to someone who's skin reaches approximately one-thousand degrees during the night resulting in me sweating. Also, I have been showering every morning for as long as I can remember so why stop now?

That's about all I can think of... That's not great but anyway I have taken a detour off my original course/point. I have a weird relationship with absence. I like it but I also think it's an absolute pain in the neck. Almost a year ago now, around the time I started blogging, I was signed off work for over a month. This is not good for me. I like being at work much more than average employee.

I didn't see a whole lot of people when I was off work, a few people came round my flat and just hung out. I talked to some other guys online and text and stuff but the world did seem a hell of a lot different and I kind of have the same sort of feelings when someone goes on holiday or is just kind of missing from the usual scenes of my life.

I have a couple of pretty recent examples two of which are two of my three favourite women. One will be gone for a whole year, well more like nine months now but still it started out as a year and that's a really long time. I can't really blame her for being away from my normality for so long, she is now raising two of the most beautiful children in the entire world. Still I will not lie I do miss her terribly.

On a very similar note another of my friends only recenly returned from maternity leave and I mean this in the nicest way possible but I didn't realise that I missed her until she came back. Then I was like, how did I not realise she was gone for so long?

It's so weird how people can impact your life without you even realising it. When the gap is evident and that person is there you tend to wonder what it is you will do because that routine has changed and you need to fill that gap again. Then the void is filled and the originator of that gap returns and everything seems to be back to normal... Not for too long though.

I have been gone for quite a bit of time. My last post was almost two months ago. Now I daresay not many of you even noticed or cared although a couple of you did and to me that is wonderful. It makes the fact that I put my mindless blabberings online worth it to know that the kind of gap I experience with my friends is there for you when you have no blog post to read. As much as I appreciate that this has little to no point other than to explain that I've been gone and that I know how it feels when something you like dissapears, it is also an I'm back.

I will be true to my words and endeavour to write more often (again) although I will say that I think the subjects, length and topics may alter as I am running out of 'things' to write about... Obviously there are an infinite number of things in this world that could keep me occupied and typing forever but the ones that are dear and close to my heart are done. What I intend to do is just write, without topics or too much point and make this a sort of biography. So lets see how that goes shall we...