3 Super Powers That Actually Exist in Real Life
#1. These people can hold their breath underwater…for 13 minutes
I spent one summer as a child becoming extremely good at pogoing — if there even is such a word. I had acquired a rusty old pogo stick from an era long since passed at a local garage sale.
I carted the beast back home, greased it up, and proudly announced to my wary family that I would soon become an expert at it.
The next two months saw me spending hours upon hours bouncing on the rickety device, hearing its constant squeak repeat almost methodically on its rusty springs.
10 minutes would go by, then I’d fall off, chastise myself, jump back on, and start hopping again.
Then it was 20 minutes, then 50.
Finally, hours and hours would pass until the summer was over and I never picked up the damn thing ever again.
It was almost cathartic in a way. Obsessive for sure. But it didn’t matter, any time I spent outdoors in the summer was time I spent away from a computer screen — to my parent's delight.
But what if my parents were actually the reason I hopped ad infinitum during that bouncy summer? What if their way of life demanded that I hop and hop and hop ’til I no longer could drop?
