Superpowers

I have lost my ability to sing. Well, I was never great in the first place, but atleast I could pick up tunes, somewhat reach low/high pitch. Now all that comes out is a squeal, like a violin being played by someone who has never touched one before. It's in a terrible state now, I can't even sing along to songs that are playing on winamp anymore.

And it's so frustrating. SO frustrating. To have had something, a special attribute such as that - no matter how minor or huge it is - and then to have lost it. It's especially difficult to deal with when you used it on a regular basis, it was part of you and it gave you that little bit of an edge that makes you a different person from everyone else or you may have used it to attain inner peace, or a means of "release". Now I know why my mom gets upset about the fact that as she is getting older, she is starting to look slightly matured. Because you had it, it was yours, it was there in your grasp but you had to let go. And now it's gone and you can never use it. You never know the power of your beauty until it expires. And in my case, it's my my ability to sing.

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O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.

What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies not plenty;
Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.

- William Shakespeare