You can have one super power...what is it?

[MrWhales]

I want the ability to never die.

Pros: I can live forever.

Cons: My friends would die and I would live.

That would be a horrible power. I can barely imagine a worse fate.

Sure the first 500-1000 years might be fun. You could learn every language, master every instrument, see every corner of the world and accomplish anything and everything a human can do. But we as a species tend have a terrible sense of just how long time stretches on for.

What happens in 10,000 years when you've exhausted every goal, every dream, and every passion you've ever had and have still not even scratched the surface of eternity? When you reach your 100,000th year will you still be able to bare to love a normal human when their lives are as brief to you as an insect's is to them? What happens in a million years when evolution has left you behind the rest of humanity? What happens when humanity itself is gone? Extinct to war, natural disasters or simply diverged off into new and alien species? What happens when the sun burns out and you are left drifting in an empty void? Do you really want to still be here when our galaxy collides with it's neighbor some 4 billion years from now? 4 billion years is a long time, but you still wouldn't have scratched the surface of eternity.

By the time you reached the end of the universe your time on Earth would seem infinitesimally brief. A single pleasant memory amid billions of years of emptiness. Assuming of course that your brain even has the capacity to store memories on that kind of timescale.

Immortality is a curse. A brief few millennia of glory, followed by unimaginable cold and emptiness.

(Sorry for the rant)

I remember reading a story similiar to this. A guy became immortal, he did the whole-explore Earth thing, get sad because people he loves die and he doesn't. blah blah, then he took a ride on the outside of a rocket. He ended up getting flung off the rocket and slowly drifted through space. He mostly just slept and work up to marvel at how beautiful the universe is. Then the universe ended and he reached enlightenment(Buddhist-style)(because when there's nothing else, might as well, right?) and became a universe.

[asi1998]

I'd like to change mine to invisibility.