A very very long time ago, before most people were born (but not that
long ago that there weren't any people), among the people that were
alive at that time, there was a quiet, brooding guy. This guy wasn't
necessarily evil, although he was always about logic and making sense
that he wasn't popular with most other people. The reason is most people
do stupid things and act according to what they feel like and disregard
the consequences, but that is what everybody does, so it's ok, but not
for him. According to him, he wouldn't hesitate killing a little girl to
save more than one other life.
Until one day, he met a very cute
girl, and they fell in love. This girl was the typical nice girl, and
took time to understand his logic but also explained to him why
sometimes its not always about logic, for example people would do stupid
things for the ones they loved, and it wasn't as stupid as it would
seem, in fact it would be a brave or romantic thing to do. Slowly this
guy starts to understand what the cute girl meant, and every now and
then he'd do some silly things that made the girl swoon.
By a
unfortunate turn of events, though, this guy came into some sort of
position of power. Meanwhile, the girl died, the consequence of some
selfish act by a typically selfish person. Having lost his most
important thing in the world, he became extremely depressed.
Through
some weird cause and effect, the guy was asked to make a choice,
regarding the lives of all the people in the world. Having just
experienced a selfish act from another person who cause the life of his
beloved cute girl, his choice was clear. Looking at all the selfish
human beings, what worth is there left in this world?
Just at
this moment a little man stepped out. He explained that he and his wife
was about to have a baby, in less than a week, and pleaded our main guy
to just postpone apocalypse for that amount of time. This little man was
a hardworking and honest man, and nobody would have the heart to ignore
his request. Soon more requests flooded in, and our main guy had a hard
time deciding whether to end the world or not. This was because among
the honest requests, there were people who lied, and they weren't very
good at lying. Every now and then, the guy gets touched and was about to
stop the apocalypse, then right at the next moment another selfish guy
appears and makes him want to end it once and for all.
Seeing our
main guy having such a hard time deciding, the cosmic entity who
proposed the choice to him decided to give him as much time as he needed
to make the ultimate choice. Because nobody could stand outside for so
long, our quiet guy them proceeds off to his little hut, and sits down
to brood it over.
People started sending requests to him through
the mail, etc. Requests came in from all over the known world at that
time, but less people visited him as the time passed. Despite earlier
mentioned that he wasn't exactly the nicest guy around, he still made it
a point to read all the letters.
Many years passed, the guy
still couldn't decide. People were starting to get complacent, although
they still contacted him they just did so as a daily mundane thing. They
also got their children to do so, because little kids are adorable and
make people go soft, and their children got their children's children
and so on.
Soon after, people started to get even lazier. They
invented something called praying, which is imagining that they have
telephatic powers to communicate with him and they start to just "think"
the request to him. The cosmic entity returned, and see the poor guy
being hindered on all the information he needed to make his ultimate
choice, gave him the power to listen in when everyone tried to "pray".
Generations
passed, and the guy was still trying to make his choice, while the
people slowly forgot about their lives in peril. The guy became
something ancient, which people knew less of, and exaggerated more. Some
way or another, "requests" because personal requests, and people ask
him for a blessed life, joyful family etc, thinking that it would come
true. In some way it help, people who believed that it would work
subconsiously worked harder to achieve what they requested for.
Today,
there's all the hoopla about him. Mistranslation and miscommunication
made him into some creator of the universe, who has infinite power and
could bring us all to a wonderful place. Although it may not be true,
it has a positive effect on the people who believe in him.
