If I could have any super power, I would want to be able to fly. Hands down. None of this being invisible garbage, flight is where its at.
Sometimes I think about the more realistic super powers that I would like to have. Like being able to sing really well. It's not normally thought of as a super power, but seeing as, you know, people can't fly, stuff of that nature is really all we have to work with.
As much as I'd love to be able to belt it like Whitney, the power I think I would want most in the world would be the ability to fall asleep anytime, anywhere. I know tons of people like this (the men in my family, sorority sisters, other assorted friends), and they probably take it all for granted. But let me tell you, when you are NOT one of these people, you OH SO WISH you were. Planes, bus rides, anytime I happen to be bored..if I could just close my eyes and drift off to sleep, my life would be that much better. But no, I suck at sleeping at random times.
I do, however, have a power that I think a lot of others would be envious of. And it's sort of related to the power I wish I had.
I am really good, and I mean REALLY good, at functioning on little to no sleep. I know people who are all "OH GOD WAH WAH if I don't get at least 8 hours of sleep I just want to die the next day." But not me! And I do it all without caffeine.
The other day, I went to bed around 12:30, for no reason other than I was doing important things like watching The Colbert Report and playing Rock Band on my iPod. I got up at 5:40 to be at work by 7, got home from work at 2:15, ate lunch and checked my email, then left at 3:30 to go to work AGAIN. I got home at 11:30 and though my feet hurt like a mofo, I realized that, at no point during the day did I ever feel tired. Which is handy when you're running around like a crazy person trying to appear chipper for what amounted to a grand total of 13 hours on my feet.
This is pretty normal for me. No matter how many hours of sleep I got the night before, I'm out of bed within 10 seconds of my alarm goes off and by the time I'm at the bathroom to brush my teeth I'm alive and alert. I might be hating my life for having to wake up when it's still dark out because WHY IS WORK ASKING ME TO SHOW UP AT UNGODLY HOURS WITH AN INCREASING FREQUENCY but at least I know I can make it through the day, no matter what.
I'm pretty thankful for this super power because I see how tired other people are. Not only that, but I really can never get myself to go to bed all that early. Even when I was working or last year when I actually went to school every single day, both times I had to be present and ready to go at 8:30 and I still never went to bed before 11:30 (at the earliest). My roommate wakes up around 8 to go to work and for real, that girl is in bed by 9. If she's still alive at 10 when I am undoubtedly settling in to watch TV I remind her that it's past her bedtime and she laments that she really should have gone to bed forever ago.
So there you have it. My useful but not that exciting super power. I'm still holding out for someone to discover the power of human flight, though.
3 comments:
I survive on little sleep a lot of the time too but I still find getting up hard - I wish that I could jump out of bed within ten seconds of my alarm going off. Instead I just keep hitting snooze until I'm on the verge of making myself late. Even though I lie there awake, I'm just too lazy to actually get out of my bed!
I'm pretty good on no sleep too, but not right when I wake up in the morning.
I always wished I could fly too, sometimes I would in my dreams when I was little.
I wish I could nap like everyone else could. But no, my body rejects sleep as I get older. My dream is to be 80 and be able to nap at a second's notice.
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