Hi.

Hello, my name is Maria.  I'm useless when it comes to talking about myself because I don't know where to begin. I guess I should start by saying that I like to think that I'm really smart, but saying that would be admitting that I'm actually really neurotic. I also edit things like crazy. I'm probably going to read this blog post fourteen different times and worry if I used commas in the right places.

And...yeah. That's about it. Like I said, I suck at talking about myself.

But if given the wonderful opportunity to pick any of the given superpowers, I would totally choose flight, only because it's the more impossible of the two. It isn't difficult to become invisible. You just have to be good at hiding or really tick someone off. Flight, however, requires sprouting wings (literally and figuratively) and owning an amazing sense of yourself. Like John Hodgman said at the end, it means choosing to be the person you hope to be.

I don't give a crap about shoplifting at the store or spying on people in the bathroom. Flight is liberating. It means shedding shame and grief and fear and getting on with your life. It means power, and not the kind fueled at the expense of others. And most of all, it means change, no matter how little you may think of yourself. I think that's the difference between people who choose invisibility and people who choose flight: one group chooses to hide in their own self-image while the other chooses to make it. And I love questions like this, because they makes me realize I should listen to myself more often. :)