playing god

you know what's really cool? the fact that, when you write a story, you're sort of like...a god.
not a god in the sense that people worship you, of course. but when i write fiction, I'm creating my own world. i create the people in the world. i decide what they look like, what their character traits are, their flaws, their strengths, their weaknesses, everything. i decide what happens to each person. i select who lives and who dies, and how they die, and under what circumstances.
all of this sometimes gives me a strange feeling of...power. even though it's just a story that i made up, and isn't "real".
but aren't we all just a part of G-d's story, so to speak? He decides everything- what we look like, our character traits, etc. He, too, is making up a story, in which all of us are the characters. of course, G-d's story is infinitely more complex than anything i can possibly come up with in a billion years. the separate stories merge and separate and merge again, a million times over. whenever people make connections with eachother, or even just glance at eachother on a crowded street, they become a part of one another's story, even if they never see eachother again. and every story that i make up is a part of my life story, which is a tiny particle in G-d's whole story of the world.
it makes me feel kind of small.
even though it's on a way more watered-down, uncomplicated level, i am the god, so to speak, of my stories. i created them. i am the keeper of the story. if i decided not to imagine,then the story, along with all of its settings and characters, simply won't exist. it's pretty cool that i have the power to create my own world. it would be amazing if the characters in my stories actually existed. then i would really be a creator.
but i suppose this is the next best thing.