Superpowers by Emma Cerra

If you could have a superpower, what would it be? I’ve always struggled with this question— the wide variety of choices always frightened me— but now, having 16 years of experience under my belt, I feel ready to answer.
    If I had a superpower, I’d want to freeze time. Imagine all the ways you could use this power! Let’s review:
     Imagine you’re running late and you forget a very important piece of homework at home. However, if you go back home to get it, you’ll be late, and if you decide to leave the homework and be on time, your grades will be affected. But, with a handy-dandy superpower like freezing time, bam! Freeze time and go snatch it! You’ll be on time AND have good grades. Win-win.
     Here’s another: a teacher asks you for homework you never did, what do you do? Take the L and get a zero for the assignment, or lie to their face saying  it’s at home and feel terrible about it all day? Well, with freezing time, just bam! Freeze time and do it then and there. Good grades all the way.
    While I do not recommend this final example since it’s very well illegal and immoral, say you see a very nice top in a store that you love. You check the price tag, and wowee. That’s a hefty one. Maybe just bam? Freeze time and grab it? I totally wouldn’t... Not at all. Unless I catch word that the store’s clothes are made unethically. Then I would have to because to have companies profit off underpaid and undervalued workers is probably more of a crime than stealing!
      While these scenarios are very fun and amusing to run in my head, I realize that superpowers do not exist and you should be responsible for yourself and your actions. And that you probably shouldn’t steal anything.