Disappearing act

What is a superpower that none of us would wish for first, but one that we would end up using a lot? Or maybe we already have it. I have used it multiple times myself. For us, it may be a superpower, but what does it do to the person we use it on? If I could choose to have any superpower, I would probably just choose money so that I could be like Batman or Iron Man. A lot of people would choose to fly or to be strong. Yet there is one superpower that we already have. To be able to disappear.

I like to disappear; I find it fun. It makes me feel like I can detach from everything around me. Yet the problem arises when people realize that I am not there anymore. It is not that I would not want them to look for me, yet it is that they would ask why I left in the first place. A question for which I do not always have an answer. But what is the problem? All of us disappear nowadays; it does not matter if we just go away, right? Nothing to be offended by; we just could not hold each other’s attention spans for long enough.

Sometimes I get a little surprised as well when someone near me disappears. It reminds me why this is a superpower, as the one who is left feels completely powerless. If one person begins to feel powerless, the other is definitely all powerful. Is that true? Does one person losing power mean someone else is gaining it? If it were simply a game of addition and subtraction, then I would probably still be in the positive. But I doubt it is.

I think this disappearing game is much more than just a plus or a minus. It is more multidimensional; a lot of times, when we disappear, we think we are the ones that are winning, but we are still losing a connection.