Meeting people for the first time makes me a train wreak, I don't know if you could tell but I promise you Esmae, I was panicking internally. I get a 100 thoughts per second and ends up not using anything I thought of and ended up vomiting words that made me rethink opening my mouth.
Sometimes what comes out of my mouth makes senses and I am eternally grateful for it, other times nonsense comes out and I wish a hole would open up and swallow me whole. For me at least, no matter how many time I go through the meeting someone for the first time routine, I still get nervous each time.
I have no idea what the other person thinks of me. They could be judging me and I would never know, I can't read minds, plus I wouldn't want to either. If I had to hear everyone's thoughts constantly, I would make myself deaf. Actually it's more of a mental thing, now that I think about it.... would that mean I can still hear thoughts? Huh, interesting....
Point is being able to read minds uncontrollably is most likely a horrible thing to experience, while I do have a desire to understand people, I would not choose mind reading no matter how curious I am about their thoughts. What do you think Esmae? Would you choose to be able to read minds?
On a related note, have you ever thought of what kind of supernatural power you would like to have? I have thought of a few that I would like, for example the ability to switch genders, the ability to switch hair colour at will, the ability focus and not get side tracked, the ability to see from a 3rd perspective etc. Esmae, do you think the world should have superpowers or not? Do you think if heros exist this world's society will decay further?