No mind game, please.
Growing up, I was a huge fan of superpower movies. Often, I would find myself possessing those powers "in my imagination, I know, right?". Then, the moment I opened my eyes, I was faced with the reality of not possessing any power at all; it was all in my head. But then the superpower I loved the most was the one that could be able to read minds. Imagine knowing what the next person is thinking. Before anything bad happened, I had already heard and tried every possible means to avert any evil plans: "Maybe that is how I would have saved my nation from this predicament we are in." and become a superhero to all.
Reading minds is something unique that I would love to possess, but then it shouldn't be the other way around, just like the prompt said. I want to be the one with the superpower that would be reading my partner's mind and knowing every one of his next moves, but then, "what would such a relationship look like?". I feel like such a relationship is gonna be filled with troubles; even the one that we can't read minds, we are faced with certain challenges, and we talk more about the one that we can read minds.
What I would do if I found out that my partner can read minds: firstly, I'm not gonna be happy because what happens to a relationship without secrets? "Because that is a secret he has been keeping from me" so anger comes first. Then the next question on my list would be when the mind reading thing started: "Has it been since from the beginning?" If it is from the beginning, then I'm gonna feel like everything started from the wrong root.
Because it would make me feel like he read my mind to be able to win me over completely. He read my mind to know the things I liked and the ones I disliked. He read my mind without my consent to know more about me "That is so wrong." Now that totally means he knows me more than I know myself. I think such relationships won't last long.
What happened to the freedom of our thoughts being with yours and yours alone? What happens to the little privacy we enjoy in a relationship? What happened to the moments when you'd be forming to tell your partner what's going on with you? "All these will be thrown into the gutter". Not forgetting those white lies, "Ooh, my chest". Imagining it right now is making me scared. I know in a relationship, we are supposed to be open with one another, and that is where the term "communication" comes into play and is the major factor that holds a relationship like glue.
If my partner could read my mind, I don't think there would be any need for us to communicate verbally because what is the essence of communication when he already knows everything roaming through my head. This is gonna be an open-mind-reading relationship. As much as my partner trusts me, I don't think that relationship would work out. I'm not gonna feel too comfortable around him because my mind would be his every time.
I feel like such a relationship won't last long because it's likely to sweep away the most important factor that exists in a relationship and that is "communication".
Thanks for reading 🧡
It’s the last paragraph for me. Heheh. There is no need for conversation 😂. So we can have mind to mind talk. That’s crazy.
But in the end there is nothing to gain from having the ability to read minds. I think that just a part of why life is interesting to live