People think that invisibility is a superpower. That it only existing in movies and comics and therefore it is impossible to obtain. But in reality, we are all invisible and it’s not something to be envied. Some people are more invisible than others and like anything in our world, there is extremes from every side.
Some people are only invisible whilst catching a bus full of strangers. Others are invisible all the time, no one sees them, not family, friend, stranger or foe. In a different way, someone who is a celebrate may not look invisible on the surface because of the fame and popularity, but beyond that, they are. Think about it, out society almost de-humanises anyone that rises to fame (although they are not the only ones). We know them not by their first name, but by their full name and sometimes only a stage name. People think they know them but they don’t. Anyway my point to this, people can be the opposite of what they look like and everyone experiences invisibility, even those who are the most unlikely. It’s in us all. It’s the thing that everyone has in common and yet, at the same time, keeps everyone so separate.
If you open your eyes enough, you can see it at a concert, walking down a crowded street, in a lecture, in a class room… it’s everywhere. When you sit on a bus you glance at the person next to you but you don’t really see them. You don’t acknowledge them any more than you need to… there is not greeting or farewell unless you know the person well. Everyone does it, from the most shy to the most confident of people.
Another example is when you walk past a person on the street, you make room on the path but do you really notice them, share a smile and or even look up? Although so many people will ignore and fuel the power of invisibility, every once and a while on one of those extremely rare occasions, a complete stranger will decide to share a smile as he/she walks passed. You know that warm feeling you get from returning the smile? … Well that’s from knowing that your not invisible and neither is the other person (even if it is only for a slit second that is shared with someone you’ve never met before).
Maybe it’s in our nature to ignore and be ignored… it is after all the reason this superpower (a rather awful superpower for the most of it) even exists. Maybe it’s a way we’re all strangely connected. But all the same, I wish it didn’t exist!
– A (invisible all the time, aka. master of invisibility)
oxoxo
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