Invisibility

If I could have any power at all, I once would've said mind reading. To be able to know how others feel....to feel their pain. Empathy never came easy to me. I mean, I could feel waves of emotion for starving kids in Africa, dead elephants in India, lines of stumps where forests once stood. But I couldn't feel any compassion if a right in person in front of me got hurt. I also wanted to know how they thought about me. I could never tell if I was friends with people or not, and at a certain age it's no longer socially acceptable to simply ask someone if you're friends. But now I've found out that I don't have as many friends as I thought I did, and that even if I could hear their thought processes I wouldn't empathize. I don't need mind reading to tell me that. Now I'd say invisibility. I already feel invisible, but if I could turn invisible I'd be able to stop pretending to be so damn happy all the time. I could slowly fade away.