[ WP ] all humans gain a super power on a random day of their life . you awake on your 70th birthday to discover you have finally gained your power .

I still remember the News Reports as a child All the Men that are paid to watch the sky warned us of this day. A meteorite about the size of Delaware was approaching are planet. This Meteor seemed to come out of no where but as many scientist would explain it could have come from any of the 60 percent of unobserved space. Regardless of its Origins it was closing in. That is when all the great minds of the world got to together and decided to do nothing. It seemed the meteor despite its great size and threat would by all accounts miss our planet just by the distance of the moon or two. That night when it passed by our earth me and my parents all sat on our roofs and watched as the night sky became illuminated by the biggest comet you will ever see. And many even the experts thought that would be the end of it. 
 
 The powers began to show up almost immediately. At first they where small almost inconvenient the power to stick to walls or to look at two places at once. Then the big ones started to show up, the ability to fly, speed, and strength. Then their was the Oddball abilities like walking on water or instantly melting ice. My wife had a power like that she could clean water with a touch of her hand. The scientist did n't really have an explanation but the consensus was that the Meteor that had just missed our planet years earlier seems to have given every man, woman, and child on the earth powers or at least those alive at the time. Newborns did n't seem to get this powers. I watched and grew up as every child hood friend, relative, and acquaintance got a power but not me. Some say it was a gift to be normal in a world full of the strange. I felt like an outsider until i met Karen. Karen my wife made me feel like I did have powers. Then she discovered h er's. Her power consumed her life after that. It started with Trips with the red cross to devastated regions places where water supply was compromised. She was like a angel from God to those people even with the powers they had Clean water was invaluable. Then she started to go on her own eventually she moved To these countries never coming home at all. I tried to follow her to live with her but it became clear she only had room In her life for one love and it was n't me. I think last i heard she was in remote location of china helping Villagers clean their underground water supply after it had been contaminated by toxic runoff from a power plant. That was years ago now i was an old man. I never remarried never had the heart to do it. No bastard children running around either I was alone. That is when i felt the pain in my chest on the eve on my 70 birthday. I tried to call for help but the ever growing pressure and pain in my chest seemed to catch the words and stuff them back in my mouth. This is how it would end an unremarkable life in a most remarkable time if i could do it all over again how I would change the world. Then I blackout, when i awoke I felt the strangest sensation my body was tingling from head to toe. I headed for the Restroom having the need to empty the contents of my stomach. I did n't even realize my clothes where way to big for me as i stumbled in. After I regain my composure I looked at myself in the mirror to find a young 20 something man looking back. I looked at my hands to find these where the hands of a young man and after further inspection i found that all of my other faculties had followed suit. That when i realized my powers had finally manifested itself I was a the physical embodiment of the phoenix to regenerate upon death. 
 
 The experts believe that the Meteor will come back. It will take some time it has to loop around the sun a couple more times should be about 70 years from now. By then all of the ones gifted with abilities should be gone and the age of heroes with them. How wrong they are.
