We made it to the best day of the week: Friday!
I am so proud of myself for sticking with my writing challenge for the entire week, and I look forward to doing it until I reach Day 25!
When faced with today’s prompt, a lot of thoughts went running through my head right away. Let’s see if I am able to make sense of them all.
Writing Prompt Number Five: What would you do if you could hear others’ thoughts?
Mind Reading Powers
If I could hear others’ thoughts, I would first think I was a superhero of sorts and instantly think of an appropriate and super bad-ass name.
Just kidding. Kind of.
In an attempt to not be committed to an insane asylum, I would most likely keep this ability to myself, and hopefully be able to turn it on and off. Who always want to hear what other people are thinking?
I imagine this power would have been pretty awesome to have during high school or college when you could have eavesdropped on that really smart kid’s thoughts during a hard test.
But I am an adult.
Those days are behind me!
Now, if I had the ability to read someone else’s thoughts, I would probably leave it on during press briefings or news conferences so I would be able to hear if the person who was speaking was really buying into what they were saying to the general public.
I would also try to work with the FBI or private investigators and help with interrogations, because I would potentially be able to hear if the alleged criminal was thinking any guilty thoughts.
Lastly, I would focus a lot of my time on trying to not obsess over what other people are thinking. I imagine my long walks I so thoroughly enjoy now would become annoying and distracting. I don’t really want to hear what Karen down the street feels about the recess mom at her daughter’s school. And I definitely do not want to hear that Alaina thinks I’m too big to jog in leggings. Some people have curves, Alaina!
Overall, I imagine hearing others’ thoughts could be beneficial in bringing down the crime rate, but I am just one person. I think it would be a very heavy job, and I’m okay with people telling me white lies now and then.
Maybe it’s better than way anyway!
Thoughts are private for a reason.
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Kristen Dutkiewicz 
I love this! Whenever someone asks me about a super power I wished for, reading someone’s thoughts is always the answer only because I’d like to empathize with other better since that is something I have been working on.
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I think we as adults take ourselves too seriously and this is an excellent reminder to let our hair down with your writing prompts, especially this 5th one on super powers.
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