If I had a Superhuman Ability

I bet most of us would have thought about this.
So, if i could have a special power, what would it be?

I used to want to have the ability to heal.
You know, like in movies where the person waves his/her hands across some sick person's heart/over a stab wound and some mystical light radiates from his/her hands and viola!
The blind sees, the deaf hears and the lame walks.
Amazing, isn't it? Or more like beautiful, isn't it?
If i had this ability, i would lead a nomadic life and travel around the world healing the deserving and the poor first before i heal the rich.
(then comes the question of who is more deserving?we might have to do some form of means-testing...)
I didn't think about how lonely i would be for the rest of my meaningful life then.
Won't i get tired of this? Until i finally think of myself as a 'tool' sent by the gods?

I also thought of having the ability to fly.
It could be the best gift or the most useless ability.
In the dead of the night i would drape myself in a piece of black cloth, open my windows and leap off with my eyes closed.
And then when i open them, the never-ending expanse of blue greets me, like an old friend i turn to when i am troubled.
On alternate nights i become someone known as The Shadow. I patrol the cities and prevent a crime before it happens.
I drop pebbles on soon-to-be criminals and along with an envelope containing a note with a single sentence: You have a choice.
I steal victims away at lightning speed if the situation calls for it.
I do this till the day someone decides to lay a trap for me and i get busted.
Then...

I also thought of whether i wanted to have the ability to read minds.
This was a major dilemma.
I imagined myself being bombarded with people's pervy thoughts and realised that it would only be useful if i also had the ability to selectively read minds.
But then again, i would be too preoccupied with trying to do things that would avoid conflicts/please others.
What if i am made aware of terrible schemes that people have in mind?
Do i get involved or do i adopt the stance of a bystander and embrace the possibility of regretting my decision for the rest of my life?
I will be inundated with someone else's problems for the rest of my life.

The ability to control time is probably the most useful ability for me right now.
I can undo all the things i have done, or would i?
Since time is no longer of value to me.

How about mind control?
I would be playing God all the time doing all the things that i think would be best in any situation.
I don't think i would ever use this to make some major changes.
I'll probably just take things step by step and gain more knowledge and eventually consult the right people before making what i think is the best decision.
Sometimes, my impulsiveness would get the better of me and i might end up making someone who is smoking swallow his cigarette stick.
Alright, i would probably be doing this on a regular basis.

To end off, i also thought of having the ability to communicate with animals.
I never really thought about this until a few months ago.
It would be pretty interesting and useful combined with mind control since i will be able to force the governor to come up with a new policy(which then again, might not necessarily be a better policy).

Maybe that's why we were all born without such abilities.
We are all vulnerable.
To make ourselves stronger and to protect the ones(human or beast) we love, we can only build up on what we have.