Anonymous
7/25/2025, 2:52:18 PM No.40793210
If you were to encounter an almighty God, a futuristic hyper advanced technology, or an entity spawned from the figment of your imagination from a drug induced hallucination, and you were offered to make a wish for a superpower, what would you wish for?
After some thought, I think a good answer(for myself, at least) would be *to wish for everyone I encounter, both in/directly, to have unimaginable capacity for being patient towards me and my in/actions*. Now, I know this probably sounds like a "oh, i wish for the wrld pace :)", or "please give everyone a nice day tomorrow xoxo", but it's admittedly a bit more selfish than appears(if you couldn't tell by the exclusionary qualification "patient towards **ME**").
See, I'm not really in the top-running in any particular field where I'm almost there, but don't have it quite in the cards to ever be #1. I don't carry the burden of being 'just barely shy of gold', where there's no more training, no practice, no 'next hurdle', that will help me 'next time'; where my peak is- outside of puzzlingly unfortunate events befalling my outranking competitors & receiving genuinely bizarre external supernatural intervention in my favor- essentially "so close, yet so far". Because there's a saying that has some wisdom in a dry, almost dark flavor of humor, sort of way:
>What's the worst place you can finish in a race?
>Last?
>No, 2nd place
And I think it's funny because everyone watching the race, and everyone else in the race is presented with a view of someone achieving an impressive feat of 2nd place. But at the same time, I think it's a fairly universal experience- whether it's a defeat against another team in sports, whether it's getting outscored by another on a school test, or even just missing your previously set 'best' in a personal activity- that can attract empathy from many different sources.
After some thought, I think a good answer(for myself, at least) would be *to wish for everyone I encounter, both in/directly, to have unimaginable capacity for being patient towards me and my in/actions*. Now, I know this probably sounds like a "oh, i wish for the wrld pace :)", or "please give everyone a nice day tomorrow xoxo", but it's admittedly a bit more selfish than appears(if you couldn't tell by the exclusionary qualification "patient towards **ME**").
See, I'm not really in the top-running in any particular field where I'm almost there, but don't have it quite in the cards to ever be #1. I don't carry the burden of being 'just barely shy of gold', where there's no more training, no practice, no 'next hurdle', that will help me 'next time'; where my peak is- outside of puzzlingly unfortunate events befalling my outranking competitors & receiving genuinely bizarre external supernatural intervention in my favor- essentially "so close, yet so far". Because there's a saying that has some wisdom in a dry, almost dark flavor of humor, sort of way:
>What's the worst place you can finish in a race?
>Last?
>No, 2nd place
And I think it's funny because everyone watching the race, and everyone else in the race is presented with a view of someone achieving an impressive feat of 2nd place. But at the same time, I think it's a fairly universal experience- whether it's a defeat against another team in sports, whether it's getting outscored by another on a school test, or even just missing your previously set 'best' in a personal activity- that can attract empathy from many different sources.
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