The Godly Author

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I feel bad for not posting, so I figured I should just post this, it's been in my Google Docs for a while. I say God in this, but that doesn't mean He is real, or that I even believe in him. I use God as a general term, for whoever/whatever created life. This isn't necessarily what I believe, I just think it's something interesting I thought of. It's definitely not Christian, or even something I'm telling you so you can follow it or believe it. Call it a theory. It's probably been said before.

TL;DR at the bottom.

Fate is our friend in life. It's He who gives us the true experience. A life told in fiction, is no life at all. It's fiction, and we think it's better than real life. People live their life in fiction, and negating what Fate has given them. But even as I say that, fate gave them a life of living in fiction. Everything you do in your day was planned out at the beginning. I don't know when the beginning was, whether your life was planned when you were born, or when the universe was born. At some point, your life was written, as was everyone else's. In a book. Somewhere in the universe you can find your book, and it has your life. And in that book, you'll see that it says that you have found the book. And that is when life ends.

Nah just kidding. 

What I want to get at is our life is planned. Everything we will ever do was meant to happen, and we cannot stray from it, for that would create a paradox. I don't know who planned it all out, maybe God did. I like to think God is an author just like me. An incredible author. He wrote history! The Roman civilization's timeline was planned out by God, it probably took him a lot of time and was very stressful to make sure there were no plot holes. It's what an author does. In Primal days, He sketched all the cave drawings, and precisely wrote where each animal would be. You can't write a story so your main characters can't survive. And you will always write so your characters can survive and progress the story. Only a fool would finish a story before it began. And so he wrote. His book kept getting bigger. The population grew, and God had to make stories for every single person. There were so many characters, some wouldn't even interact with each other. And as it still grows, God has nullified the definition of main character. Every civilization he wrote has it's own main characters. America has had plenty of them. Martin Luther King Jr. George Washington. All main characters with heroic tales.

But then there's you. There's me. There's the boy in your class who sits at the back of the row. There's the girl in the bathroom stall having a panic attack. We have stories too. God doesn't forget to write for the side characters. Because the side characters aid the main character. The side character can be the main character, it's always up to interpretation. Think Harry Potter. Harry is obviously the main character, but no one ever says that Harry is their favorite character. It's always someone else, I've even heard some people say Neville is their favorite. (mine is Dobby) This book of humanity has grown so enormous.

With enormity, comes ordinary. For the lack of a better word, we're pretty much the same. Have you had troubles? With parents? Abuse? How about addiction. Or school being stressful. Maybe you have social issues. If it helps, a TON of other people have that same issue. You want to know why? God has come into a writers block. He has to write, deadlines with the editor or something, but he doesn't know what to write. So he does the same thing, with a little bit of spice maybe. But then he sprinkles that spice on some other character. And he uses the common story arc. 

Life starts out great, or it doesn't. You're either a happy child, loving life and living in bliss. Or something happened from the start, and your childhood is terrible. Raise your hand if you fit in either of those categories. If you can't remember, raise your hand anyway because it's true. Then you move on to being a teenager and it goes opposite. Of course, sometimes God will make it really rough on someone who started off terrible, and make the teenage years terrible. But that's just so he can get readers to feel for the character, and grow attached to that person. He doesn't need to make the character go through stuff, but if they don't how will they get to their ultimate resolution? I understand why we are wrote in the story to have troubling times, and what it means. 

Time tells that we grow. 

And God has an interesting way of character interaction and dialogue. Some of the characters are bad at making good dialogue with others, and so their story lives in their head. On the opposite end, some characters progress their story through interacting with the other characters God wrote to be around them. 

God wrote it so that every person around you will have some impact on you, whether you realize it or not. And you were written so you will impact every other person's life, whether you know it or not. The six degrees of separation perfectly illustrates my point. God has created this entire fictional universe, it's insane that we can get lost in sub-fictional universes that are within the one God wrote. 

Fiction written by fiction.

This book He has written is not called The Bible, it is not called the Quran, not the Sutras. No holy text holds the fictional world written that we play. They are all but a fiction inside a fiction, just as much as Harry Potter is. This book has no name, but The Universe. 

Read a book and picture yourself as the main character. The truth is, you are the main character of your own book. 

TL;DR God is an author who writes humanity. He writes blandly, and we all have pretty similar stories, and they all can end up being great if we persevere through the conflict of the book.