Play God Day

People who are unhappy with their lives and the status quo often want to change the world Only God can make it better and fairer, punish criminals and heal the terminally ill, comfort the suffering and feed all the hungry An unusual holiday celebrated on January 9 - Playing God Day - encourages you to be in his place and try to influence the world around you Taking the reins of power and trying on the role of the Almighty is not an easy task Human society exists by its own rules and lives according to patterns that cannot be violated even as a being endowed with enormous power and capabilities In the socio-fiction story "It's Hard to Be a God", written in 1963, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky raise various topics One of them is the problem of choice facing a person who, like the Lord, has power and authority over other people The main character of the story, Don Rumata, was unable to maintain neutrality and disrupted the course of the historical process of an alien civilization It is difficult to remain indifferent and indifferent when you see the suffering of other people But sometimes it is better to give a hungry person a fish, not a fishing rod - to give him the opportunity to solve the problem himself, to create conditions for development, providing all possible assistance only at the initial stage Play God Day is a great opportunity to feel and behave like God: to make someone’s life filled with positive emotions and events, joyful and happy At the same time, everyone who decides to act as a Higher Power must understand the full degree of responsibility that falls on his shoulders Great power also means great responsibility for your actions Becoming God, you will have to make a choice and rise above the situation so as not to “do good” and not “cause irreparable harm” The plot of ancient Greek myths and poems centered not only on the inhabitants of Olympus, natural spirits and ordinary mortals The main characters were often heroes - children of deities and people - Achilles, Hercules, Theseus, Odysseus, Perseus The status of demigods imposed special obligations on them: it required them to perform feats, to carry out the will of the Olympians on earth, ordering the lives of people and bringing justice into it in spite of ancient disharmony and spontaneity of the world To solve the tasks assigned to them, the heroes were endowed with superhuman capabilities and strength An ordinary person who decided to celebrate Play God Day did not receive such gifts from the gods Therefore, on January 9, there is no need to try to embrace the immensity and make a large number of people happy at once Give a pleasant surprise to a friend, fulfill a long-standing request of a child, provide all possible assistance to a stranger you meet on the street, making your contribution to maintaining harmony in the world around you, thus celebrating the Day of Playing God