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would you rather . . .

Would you rather be invisible or have the power to read minds?  
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3060903 tn?1398565123
I'd like to be invisible so i could rob banks, or maybe just drug dealers, like robin hood, i'd give all of it to the poor..ha
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13167 tn?1327194124
An empath?  I've never heard that word.  but I do that too but with physical stuff.  Like,  if someone's describing a root canal,  I literally feel stabbing pain in my teeth,  and if they just had knee surgery and I see them my knee throbs.  I don't feel other's emotions,  but I am sometimes almost crippled by someone else's physical pain.  I used to think everyone was like that,  hence statements like "I feel your pain" and "oh stop,  you're making me hurt!".

Interesting.
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Nice to see another empath here.  It can be exhausting though.  
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1696489 tn?1370821974
Neither.  I would choose my God-given humanity.  Being invisible would make for the awesomest bank-robbery, but that's all.  I want to interact with people, and you can't do that by being invisible, hiding in the shadows, isolating, allowing those little thoughts of unworthiness to be your owner.
Reading minds?  NO WAY.  I'm an empath (someone who feels what others feel), and THAT alone is very hard if I let my guards down: I get FLOODED with sadness, hurt, anger, mixed with child-like joy, criminal-intent, and the bliss of newlyweds.   It's TOO MUCH.  That is why my guard does not come down unless I am one-on-one with someone.  Being able to read minds would be hell on earth, and i would wish it on no one.
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Read minds as if I was invisible I might do bad things with that...ha ha.
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RockRose, this is the way I 'see' it too!!  You stated it SO well and I LOVE Your humor !!
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13167 tn?1327194124
I don't  want to read minds,  that's for sure.  That's one big fat world of hurt,  right there.   People who have a complimentary thought about you usually say it and so you don't have to read their minds - and even your dearest and closest family and friends have very uncomplimentary thoughts quite often.  "she looks awful in that outfit,  I wonder if maybe she's actually sick",  "if I have to hear about her daughter's upcoming wedding one more minute I think I'll fake a migraine and get out of here",  "why does she always make that bug-eyed face in posed pictures?  Here's another one,   and she thinks that's a great family portrait.  How does she even MAKE her eyes bug out like that",  "I can't believe you won't drive an hour and 15 minutes to take your high school son  a packet of clarinet reeds after he called and said his reed just now split,  and he has to perform in region UIL tryouts in 3 hours.  You're doing nothing all day.  How self-centered and lazy can you be?"   These are all things I've thought  recently, in my head,  about people I adore.  I really love all of them and would be horrified if they knew those thoughts crossed my mind.    I bet 95% of my  thoughts about them are loving and positive,  but yowser.  I'm sure they think similar negative things about me occasionally.  So no,  don't want to read minds.

And I'm already invisible.  People bump into me continuously,  and are completely startled when they do it.  OOH,  sorry,  didn't see you.  

But I'd like to be able to fly,  if that's being offered.  Or I'd like to have the gift of singing beautifully.   ;D
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I wouldn't call my gift reading others' minds, but I consider myself an empath.  My intuition is 100%. on.

Invisible doesn't sound fun or interesting to me.
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3149845 tn?1506627771
Well considering the number of people in the world, in some respects we are already invisible and as for mind reading, im usually not far off from figuring people out anyway.
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Wow SpecialMom this is good !!

I wouldn't want to have either but since I have to choose, it would be the power to read minds.  To wish to be invisible is totally incomprehensible to me.   I'm sure I probably wouldn't ALWAYS want to know what someone is thinking (I might get my feelings hurt) but it seems the only choice I could make between these two.
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