Playing God

by resssssie

Craig sees the end for his best friend and will do everything in his power to change it. Even if it means changing his own. /some Cryde action here, one sided at first, told by Craig's POV.

1. Prologue

Have you ever heard of the saying "Don't play God"? I have and I really don't understand. I never believed in God or the church ever since I turned old enough to really dress myself; of course, I went to Church every Sunday like a good boy to appease my parents and keep their good name unsoiled in our small mountain town.

But, I didn't really see the possibilities of a man turning water into wine, which, was actually his blood. I also didn't see the probability of a woman getting pregnant without having sex with her husband. Sounds to me like Mary cheated on Joseph and like any deceitful, unfaithful woman she lied and said she did nothing of the sort. Of course, Joseph being a gullible little shit, turned his wife into the mother of the messiah since he, I guess, believed she'd never cheat. So, the only option is that she must be pregnant with the creator of life's son. Instead of the bible, it should've been called "The First Ever Case of Extreme Denial." if you ask me.

All of my beliefs- or non-beliefs aside, I don't understand the saying because I never believed in God enough to really think that he had sculpted each and every one of us, coded our brains and programed our souls to follow a certain destiny that no one can ever screw up or change. Can you not play God because it's uncertain if you can change a destiny since it's already written out for you? Or if you try and tamper with your brain coding.. would it not matter since your defiance is already written in the coding of our destinies? Or can you not play God because no matter what you do to the journey, the end will always be the same, written in stone?

It's similar to a Mario game, isn't it? There are countless ways you can finish the level in certain worlds. There's always the standard black flag with Bowser on it or the "secret" ending with the red flag. In the secret ending you might unlock an extra level that somewhat deviates from the regular line of levels but if you beat it you end up right back on the same track to defeat Bowser in the end and save Princess Peach. So you deviated from your destiny for a single second before you were right back on track to the ending that you were born into, right?

So what would you do when you know the ending? What would you do if you knew the ending and didn't like it? What if it wasn't your ending you didn't mind but someone else's that has at one point swirled around your coded destiny and went the opposite way and you couldn't do anything to change that because no matter what you do..your defiance is written in the program and it will always be the same ending with a different journey.

But who knows if that's how life really works? Do we really know of God? Of destiny? Are we programed like computers with binary 0's and 1's all inside the folds of your brain? Or is the old saying "Playing God" something that has to do with the fact that there is no destiny and anyone can be 'God' and change everything and anything in life and there are multiple endings like in a Mario game but instead of getting on track to the same ending, you stay deviated and it branches off into a million and one different options on how to live your life with the smallest decision.

But I can promise you this: If life isn't a binary code decided by the highest power..it's a butterfly effect and it will end exactly how you anticipate it.