A Bird, a Plane, You!

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You get to choose one superpower. Pick one of these, and explain your choice:

• the ability to speak and understand any language
• the ability to travel through time
• the ability to make any two people agree with each other

 

If some form of divine intervention (a bite from a radioactive spider or a poisonous serum being reverse-engineered and given to me as a life-saving vaccine) suddenly gave me a superpower, I would choose to travel through time.

The ability to speak and understand any language could be mastered my mere human, if I would just get off my lazy butt and practice.

The ability to make any two people agree with each other… what a crock of ****. You can make people say anything. But you can change the actions that pour form the heart. A jerk will be a jerk… A clown will be a clown… A racist will be a racist… Mere words, nor rewriting laws, will change any of this.

So…… I want the ability to travel through time. I don’t ask for the ability to change anything in time. People- for the most part- create their own destinies. I don’t choose to rewrite history. But there are MANY PEOPLE throughout history with whom I would love to converse. (The list is in no particular order!)  I would just want to ask a lot questions that start with “Why…”

1. George Washington
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Benjamin Franklin
4. Abraham Lincoln
5. Stonewall Jackson
6. Malcolm X
7. Martin Luther King, Jr.
8. Jesus
9. Confucius
10. Buddha
11. Joan of Arc
12. Cleopatra
13. Julius Caesar
14. Mozart
15. Beethoven
16. Leonardo de Vinci
17. Thomas Edison
18. Mother Teresa
19. Gandhi
20. Socrates
21. Galileo
22. William Shakespeare
23. Napoleon
24. Karl Marx
25. Adolf Hitler
    

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Written for The Daily Post: February 1, 2016.A Bird, a Plane, You!