So I was at work the other day, and on the radio was some sort of show and it was three voices just interacting and one, who obviously was the anchor asked the one “if you had to choose between different powers, which would you pick?” And she answered without a second’s doubt “I want to be able to read minds” and when she was asked why specifically, she answered “so I can read my ex’s mind” And I thought “she wants to be able to read her ex’s mind!!!” But why would she think that’ld be the perfect gift for her?
Personally, if I had to pick from; immortality, ability to read minds, Teleportation and perhaps certain others, I’ll pick teleportation jare. That’ld be sooo cool. Just imagine na, you vanish and reappear anywhere anytime at will!!!
Immortality? emm.....nah, not really. Hehe. Why would I want to live forever??? As in you go just dey all the people them follow born you with go die finish and you go still dey. In short you go dey there all their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren go die finish, you no gree die. Nah, i’ll pass on that one jare. Lol
But I don’t think I’ll choose the ability to read minds either sha. I mean to me your life will become so miserable after that in my opinion. You can barely survive through your own dark secrets, how much more those of every one whose own dark secrets you were able to read off their minds even against your own will. As in, there’s nothing you can do about it. You’re in a crowded room and the thoughts of all about 50 people in the room are just hitting you like a racket to a tennis ball. Imagine you seating in church and reading the pastor’s mind “hmm, look at Mrs Adeola sitting in the front row, her legs apart with that nasty ass thong on!! Hmm, I shall have to arrange another personal meeting on accounts soon” or sitting in your living room with Mom and Dad who are arguing about money again and read your mom’s thoughts; “Useless fool, I don’t even know why I’m still with your broke ass! Kmt! I know I should have accepted Chief Odogun’s invitation to his hotel last week, I know that could have gotten me enough money to change the kids uniforms and school shoes, and also pay for Chidi’s jamb form”
What of being able to read 60 year old Doctor Ezeife’s mind. The much respected friend of your dad who has never failed to visit your parents every Sunday for the past 20 yrs and it read “Hmm, see how this his daughter that was born 15 yrs ago has matured into a full vixen. Look how succulent her breasts are. She looks like Father Okoro’s daughter I had in that run down hotel last week” That’s your junior sister!!! Lol. What are you going to do about all this? “Police please come and arrest this man, I just read his mind and he plans to rob Uncle Mike’s house tomorrow night!!” I keep doing that and I’m going to land in an asylum in no time.
This is why the movie “Inception” was big. It showed how people had come to keep secrets viral to a company’s existence have now had to be stored in the mind. It meant that, bank vaults and computer hard drives or burying it thousands of feet underground have all proved unsafe, so the mind has been thought to be the only safe place to hide them. But the movie also showed how an elite group of criminals had come to birth. “Mind Robbers”, funny abi? I’ve said it before, mankind is the most intelligent race ever!!! The things we invent on the daily!! I mean to imagine that we were all apparently thousands of years back in the stone age using sticks and rocks to make fire. We still walked around naked!!! So these guys infiltrate your mind and find and take whatever secret you had in there that was of interest to them!
You failed an exam but your parents are all sympathetic and encouraging like “don’t worry ehn, we know you did your best and that’s ok for us. Just prepare harder next time” Do you really want to know that they really think “Well, you’re not our brightest child and all but we understand. Your first class elder brother is always there to make us proud”
Or do you really want to know that your lover’s real thoughts about you are “well, you’re not at your best in the looks department I have to be honest, and your sex sucks really but you are well mannered, and you seem to be really happy when around me and my fam sort of fancies you so its cool. Left to me i’ld go with that your hot best friend”
Do you want to have to bear all the animosity in the heads of your mom and your mother-in-law??? The real question is CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH??!!
Because not everyone can handle the truth. Some breakdown, it damages egos irreparably and so on and so forth. The lady on the radio station wanted to read her ex’s mind. First thing that came to my mind was “Awww, she has a lot of “why” questions she desperately wants answered, and she will do anything to be able to read her ex’s mind” Imagine finding your mom’s deepest secrets, your dad, your friends, virtually anyone! I don’t think I would like that o. LoL
The only time I might need that power though is in that situation when there’s some babe in your room, and una don chop the dinner you made, chop desert, una don down two bottles of wine, una don look 3 movies back to back and she has said she was leaving for about 5 times now in the past 2 and half hours only to delve into another drawn out convo. Wouldn’t you like to see what’s going on in that head of hers? Lol. As in, she’s your very good friend from way back since primary school so even thinking about that is a bit taboo. But what is she playing at??!!! Is she trying to pass a message? Why don’t I see it??? Imagine say you come read am and it goes “What are you waiting for you slow fool??!!” lmao!!! Now THAT!!!! Would be dope!!!!!
But on the real, I don’t think I want to read people’s minds jare, it’ld just be too much for me. But then I don’t need to go far to read people’s minds. I simply have to log on to TWITTER!!! Yes twitter. You see I’ve always believed that everyone had some inner poet in them. Give anyone from 3yrs upwards a pen and a pad and ask them to write a hundred word essay about themselves and you’ld be amazed the words that person would actually pick to say what he wants to say. No other person in the whole wide world could have ever written it the way they did ever! Just go on twitter and see what people are doing with a mere 140 words. People are pouring intelligence, charisma and wittiness of great magnitudes into 140 words!! Not gonna lie, I hated twitter when I initially joined just for this very reason. Someone would tweet “Yawns” or “Going to make dinner” or “This woman is just stupid” or some other random stuff. What pissed me off was what that people where tweeting busllshit rather than what I thought they should have tweeted (abi twat. Lol). Why are you telling me you’re yawning? Or that you’re going to make dinner? So I should go and jump inside river Niger abi?? But it was only recently I discovered OMG!!! I JUST READ THAT PERSON’S MIND!!!! In that way, twitter has become in my opinion the greatest social networking site ever! Others have you putting up pics and what not, but this has given millions of people the world over to pour out their minds into 140 words!! For the first time ever, Mankind has been able to incorporate the human psyche into the codes of a software! How amazing is that??!!!
And apparently the quest to read minds is also infectious. That’s why a Kim Kardashian for instance has over a hundred thousand followers. It’s all those people saying, “yeah she always seems so calm and relaxed in front of the camera, but what exactly lies behind all that facade???” people will kill to know!
My anger also, was the cockiness of people. Chai, go on twitter and see cocky people!!!! They’re either boasting of something or the other. They think so highly of themselves and all. But I thought to myself, No! These are personalities unfolding before your very eyes!!! You are privileged to be experiencing this!!! With that I started adding and re-adding most people I previously got tired of. These days I log on to my TWEET DECK and leave it running in the background when I’m working, and occasionally get updates of what people are tweeting that opens up in some small box at a corner of the screen. It is so fascinating I tell you!
