Diagnostics Essays

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My Superpower

If you would be asked to list a few superpowers, what would they be? Would they include flying or maybe superhuman strength? The average answer is most likely one of the many seen by superheroes in cartoons, movies and television, where most of the superheroes have only physical advantages. I myself am way more fascinated by the mental powers instead.
Let’s say that Superman gets 5 children and all of them would only get one of their father’s superpowers. One would be extremely strong, one would be really fast, one could fly, one would have the laser vision and one could not get hurt. Not even one of them could change the world in a large scale. Sure, they would all be famous and admired, but instead of “super” they would only be “special”. That is why the most powerful single ability has to be mental. For example hypnosis is a very powerful method and is already used in good and bad. It can help people to remember and so solve crimes; and medical hypnosis is also very highly developed. On the contrary hypnosis can also be used by dishonest people to convince others to make terrible investments on the hypnotist’s benefit, or a skillful hypnotist can even non-violently rob a man and then leave him with no other than happy memories of that day. If all that is possible in today’s world already, even when superpowers shouldn’t exist, just think what could we achieve if our mental powers were inhuman?

My dream has always been to make a difference in the world and I can’t imagine how my ability to fly, or lift enormous weights would get me anything else than some fame and my own Wikipedia page. The ability that would take me closer to that dream guarantee is to get everyone trust me no matter what. I’m sure any politician, most of all, the president, wouldn’t mind to have that power. If I would just wake up one day whit it, it could take me a small while to figure out that it’s even a power. But after all the new friendships and the success in life I thought was just luck, I would realize the full potential of my abilities and would probably try it at first by going to an airport and saying: “You really don’t want me to pay for these tickets. Trust me.” That would get me into Afghanistan, where I could ask the suicide bombers to trust me and tell them it’s not worth it. If that would work, I’d know there were no limits with my power. Those people are willing to take their lives just to gain some chaos and few dead civilians, so they are already so brainwashed that I think their minds would be the hardest to persuade. How else on earth could I stop them from killing people without actually killing them, which is what they were going to do anyways.

With that power a person could end wars, end poverty, end crime and somewhat rule the world. Quickly this world would become like a paradise and there wouldn’t be any big scale troubles anymore. The whole world could be changed in no time and left with nothing more to achieve in it. But that is not what I want. Yes, I do want to make a difference in this world, but I want to earn even that small part in change on my own and with my own natural abilities. I’d much rather make a backpacking journey around the world than a free one week vacation in a spa. It is like taking a shortcut over the mistakes and experiences which normally stay in our memories for a lifetime and can be told to future generations so they could learn from them. The amount of power that would come with this “mind control” -ability would be too much for one person to handle. It would be so hard that even I in the end would rather just have the ability speak Chinese.


Revised and synthesised with I am Because:

If I did it

To be a president of the super-nation, like America, would be something, would it not? That is not true. Yes, he does hold several codes to a lot of nuclear bombs, but so do a number of other people in the world too. Yes, he is the person in charge of a country with the largest economies in the world, but he still has enemies even in his own country. Where is the fun in that? Why there always has to be someone in oppose to? That is why I pursued the life of a mental superhuman. Not for the good of mankind, but for me. If someone else would benefit on the side too, I would not have a problem with that. I am what people would call “evil”, if they would know to dislike me, but they can’t. As I said I am a superhero, or a super-villain, whatever you like to call it, I control everyone’s minds. Not just by telling them what to do, but making them want to do what I want them to do. It is so much easier to control the world this way. This power is mental, but far more powerful than anything else in the world. True, I cannot stop a flying bullet, but I sure can make the shooter not shoot. The power of fast mental persuasion is truly awesome, and is not for everyone to handle. I am not even sure if I should’ve had it. Automatically, when I talk, everyone agrees with me, instantly. It has made me powerful in every aspect, but also greedy and selfish.

To become the leader is not always easy. A student needs to challenge and beat the master to become one. My process was hard and at first, extremely rewarding. The process and many other aspects in my life could have not come true, without the major influence of cartoons in my life. Cartoons were a large source of pathos in my life. They made me feel like nothing before. As I was a kid, I always watched cartoons, and saw how villains tried to destroy the earth somehow, because they were treated poorly, when they were kids themselves. Heroes however were always loved through their whole lives and that is why they were able to do the right decisions. Heroes were always the ones getting all the credit and the fame. Was that fair? I didn’t think so. I saw myself as the villain and the heroes were the bullies in my life. The villain has been trampled on for his whole life, and now the superhero does it too. I tend to think that superheroes don’t even acknowledge what they are doing, because the mental power of knowledge has never been a must for them. They have always had their superpowers as a backup plan. Villains on the other hand have the knowledge, but by the time they get it, they have already been kicked off the boat of success by the “good” guys.

To out the existing superheroes and villains in power, I had to know both sides inside and out. Luckily I had experience on both mindsets, as I had been both loved and stepped on throughout my life. For me, those experiences were a great source of pathos, as they made me think and have feelings like hate, love, and patience. They made me realize that it is the nature of humankind to feel both good and bad. An old master of mine, a powerful man of hypnosis, once told me, “Love and selfishness. Those are the qualities that set us apart from the animals”. My master and his lessons are now the main influence in my life. They have molded me into the person who I am today, so he is the ultimate source of ethos in my life, right now. It did not used to be always like that. There was a time, when I was finally the best. I started to persuade everyone I encountered. As I succeeded, I wanted more. I became very greedy. I did have the time of my life for quite some years, until my whole life started to seem too easy to be true. And it was. Where is the fun in playing if I’ll always win, and everyone always wants me to win, also the opponent? Same goes to ruling the world with these powers. At first it’s confusing, then fun and easy and then at last depressingly easy. There was no one to compete with.

As I have led to world for quite some years now, I have had time to examine different aspects of life. I have ended wars by saying what in my mind would be fair. I have started wars, just to see what is going to happen. And I have even made people create a new religion, scientology, because I thought it was a good idea at the time, but it was no fun, so I left them to deal with it. I did get Tom Cruise to help though. I did not need money, as I always got what I wanted. I was like a fat kid, with a credit card, in a candy store. As credit does, the conscious clams its bills later on too.

Sometimes I felt bad for what I did. Then I started to notice, that others agreed on the negative sides as well. They felt bad for me now. Times when I did not like me, others wouldn’t either. A normal person would at least have had true friends to support him/her, but not me. As I was just manipulating everything, I realized I had no true friends. I was, selfish and alone. Those realizations have acted as a part of logos on me, as I have seen, the meanings and the consequences with my own eyes. I had truly become the evil villain in the cartoon, and I did not like it. I wanted to make everything up to the people, but I am old now, and during my depression phase new masters started taking over. Now I only feel like a president, and as many presidents promise to rule for the better of mankind and the whole nation, I promised that for myself too. But as many presidents have failed to do that, so have I. I am now a retired superhuman, with no respect left from anyone anymore. If a student would ask, “What is your legacy; the lesson you would leave for me to discover“. I would answer, “No one will believe in you, if the one, who doubts you, is you yourself”.

Being in the age of 80, when most of the experiences, one wants to experience, are already fulfilled, one has time to think; to think whether it was all worth it. That is when all the doubts in the head come alive. “Why did I take psychology, instead of Chinese language”, was the question I asked myself. I tried to reason, and convince myself, but I could not change my mind. I was nothing but a sorrow old man. I tried to control everyone else, before I could control myself.