Detention Center Blog 2

Today was the second day of going to the Detention Center and I got to meet a different group of people. Today we talked about everyone’s dreams for the future and superpowers – if you had a superpower how would you use it.

While talking about dreams, one of the guys in my group introduced me to the fact that he wants to be an entrepreneur because he’s currently working on a clothing business – he has over eight thousand followers on TikTok, and his main job is to print designs on clothes and then buy them off. The other guy – the two of them are very close friends – has seemingly very different perspectives. This boy wished to live on a mountain for the rest of his life. He enjoys the peace and quiet of living with no one to bother him. This boy likes to produce music, he knows how to use different software to create music, and his friends around him have taught him how to produce music, so he can write his own songs without any professional training; the songs he wrote himself have more than 20,000 plays on YouTube – which for him is a remarkable achievement for him. This guy also really wanted to go to the Great Wall and was interested in Chinese culture because his ancestors were Chinese.

We then talked about the superpowers that each of us would like to pick. The first boy said that he wanted the ability to turn stones into gold so that he wouldn’t have to work – he wanted to be the richest man in the world. The second boy, on the other hand, didn’t want to be very rich; he just wants to be wealthy enough to give him and his family a good life, he thought a lot of money would invite trouble. The superpower he wishes to acquire is the ability to read minds so he can understand a person’s emotional swings and their inner thoughts. I really appreciated this boy’s values: his love of music, his emotional subtlety and his lack of greed were very appealing. The first boy was more introverted in comparison, and when it came to his dreams, he wasn’t very firm in his conviction to be an entrepreneur – he ended up saying that his real dream was to be the Terminator in the movie, but didn’t give a reason.