I brushed my teeth, took a nice, warm shower and got ready for work. Yea, I still had to go work, for I still had no idea of limits of the powers I possessed.
"Can I fly?", I wondered and imagined myself floating. Nothing happened.
"Okay! Something simpler", I decided and pictured my hand rising upwards without moving it using my physical force. Nothing happened. "How disappointing!", I thought, realizing that I could not use my powers on my body. So I set my mind away from my body towards my clothes which were lying on my bed about 15 feet away and imagined them flying towards me. Surprisingly, they refused to move. I moved closer and tried again. This time they flew towards me.
"Huh?? A distance limitation! This blows! How the bloody hell am I even supposed to do anything with this?", I said, angrily wondering what kind of stupid powers there were. Little did I know that I was simply lacking creativity at the time. Had I opened my mind, I would have been able to do "more"!
After a bit of trial and error, which took about an hour, I figured out that I had what I call a "Zone of Influence", which took the shape of a sphere that extended about 7 feet in all directions away from my centre of gravity. Within this zone I could influence any object and have it move towards and away from me. The clearer the image, the more effective the influence. But my disappointment at the distance limitation simply prevented me from thinking ahead. I resigned myself to the fact that I had some basic powers and although I could do simple stuff with it, I would never be able to have fun with them, I would never be able to enact my fantasies.
Life, however, is well known for fucking with people and later that day I was to discover how much of creativity and knowledge I lacked inspite of having had a very active imagination in the past.
I went to my workplace, finished my 9-5 stint, said bye to my colleagues and began my walk back home, which for the first time in a long long time did not feel that very monotonous given that I possessed some strange powers. Halfway through the journey I noticed a little girl, no more than 5 years old, playing with her dolls on the sidewalk, a relatively harmless place. I loved children and smiled noticing her having fun, wondering what kind of world she was cooking up. That's when a car zoomed past me, swerving like crazy; clearly the driver had lost control. What I saw was that the way the car was moving, the little girl was in clear danger.
I barely had 5 seconds before the child would be run over by the car; my desire to save her kicked in and my mind went into overdrive. The next thing I remembered was that I was on the ground, my left hand and shoulder were hurting terribly, the girl was lying unconscious, but still breathing, on my chest. For a moment I was filled with elation that I had somehow managed to save a life before I passed out due to the pain.
A few hours later, I woke up in the hospital heavily sedated with a cast around my left arm and shoulder. Although I was unable to think straight, I realized that I had just managed to do something good and heroic and that my powers were not a stupid as I thought them to be. Later, as the drugs wore off, I was to recall the entire incident and know just how much I still had to learn.
"Can I fly?", I wondered and imagined myself floating. Nothing happened.
"Okay! Something simpler", I decided and pictured my hand rising upwards without moving it using my physical force. Nothing happened. "How disappointing!", I thought, realizing that I could not use my powers on my body. So I set my mind away from my body towards my clothes which were lying on my bed about 15 feet away and imagined them flying towards me. Surprisingly, they refused to move. I moved closer and tried again. This time they flew towards me.
"Huh?? A distance limitation! This blows! How the bloody hell am I even supposed to do anything with this?", I said, angrily wondering what kind of stupid powers there were. Little did I know that I was simply lacking creativity at the time. Had I opened my mind, I would have been able to do "more"!
After a bit of trial and error, which took about an hour, I figured out that I had what I call a "Zone of Influence", which took the shape of a sphere that extended about 7 feet in all directions away from my centre of gravity. Within this zone I could influence any object and have it move towards and away from me. The clearer the image, the more effective the influence. But my disappointment at the distance limitation simply prevented me from thinking ahead. I resigned myself to the fact that I had some basic powers and although I could do simple stuff with it, I would never be able to have fun with them, I would never be able to enact my fantasies.
Life, however, is well known for fucking with people and later that day I was to discover how much of creativity and knowledge I lacked inspite of having had a very active imagination in the past.
I went to my workplace, finished my 9-5 stint, said bye to my colleagues and began my walk back home, which for the first time in a long long time did not feel that very monotonous given that I possessed some strange powers. Halfway through the journey I noticed a little girl, no more than 5 years old, playing with her dolls on the sidewalk, a relatively harmless place. I loved children and smiled noticing her having fun, wondering what kind of world she was cooking up. That's when a car zoomed past me, swerving like crazy; clearly the driver had lost control. What I saw was that the way the car was moving, the little girl was in clear danger.
I barely had 5 seconds before the child would be run over by the car; my desire to save her kicked in and my mind went into overdrive. The next thing I remembered was that I was on the ground, my left hand and shoulder were hurting terribly, the girl was lying unconscious, but still breathing, on my chest. For a moment I was filled with elation that I had somehow managed to save a life before I passed out due to the pain.
A few hours later, I woke up in the hospital heavily sedated with a cast around my left arm and shoulder. Although I was unable to think straight, I realized that I had just managed to do something good and heroic and that my powers were not a stupid as I thought them to be. Later, as the drugs wore off, I was to recall the entire incident and know just how much I still had to learn.
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