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It’s hard to stay calm as time goes by. Seeing random shootings with no intent other than to hurt others. Violent pranks such as drive-by paintballing. Super companies raising prices just because they can. Vandalism for the sake of boredom. Criminals suing their victims and winning… This world sucks and it’s not going to get better. The only thing that has changed over the past thousands of years is that we have become much more “civilized” in how we act uncivilized.
In an age where having super powers or just being a regular vigilante is popular, I must remain at peace. It’s one of the hardest things to do: to be a victim of injustice and turn the cheek. It’s a simple lesson but one that can’t be ignored. Once I start daydreaming about being a superhero of any kind, even for just the “I’d be cool if I could…” kind, hatred will now have an opening to get in. Who thinks of super powers like: spontaneous kitten / puppy creation, shooting laughing gas out of your eyes, or any of the carebear’s powers? It’s all super strength, super speed, and sharks with lasers on top. And when was the last time you ever daydreamed about dealing justice but you nicely captured the bad guys without hurting a single one?
And without going to the weird super powers, I could simply just be that little bit stronger than the perpetrator. Deal him my own brand of four fingered justice. Being that extra bit faster when they show a weapon. Or possibly the nonviolent method of spinning your own scheme to get them caught in their own plans. Foiling a plot… but really.
It’s not that you can’t do the above and you should just sit and take it. I’ll be one to admit that in tough situations, I’d probably freeze up. But that’s not the point. You see…
It all comes back to Hatred.
And the more you focus on it, the more you become like it.
So I’ve been watching Heroes, but as many others, I have had daydreams of having super powers. Whether it’s inspired by comics, cartoons or movies, sometimes even TV shows, my powers are usually unique. At least from my point of view. They probably exist in some character I haven’t heard of before but whatever.
And then there began to show traces I actually did have a power. One I couldn’t control nor wanted. I’m not sure when it really started, but I found I could degrade the technology I was using. Not in the naughty sense
, but physically. D-Link doesn’t like me, I seem to defect all cards I get from them.
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I saw my first manifestation a few weeks ago (from this post) when I electrocuted my sound card. It took me forever to determine that it was that I destroyed as at first, I thought it was my headphones as it was what I shocked first. Then the speakers as I found out the hard way it wasn’t the headphones. Then I finally decided to test the soundcard and it proved to be the faulty part. It’s been replaced and the new one is working properly.
Concurrently, the laptop has been the biggest pain. A loose screw was shorting out the motherboard, then the motherboard didn’t work or at least it was replaced. Still having problems and it only seems to get worse as the last days for my warranty approaches.
It’s either that or the soundcard issue was a fluke and my laptop just doesn’t like me.