Can someone please tell all of us that we're not God?

It's scary sometimes when I think of the world that I live in.  It's overwhelming, heart-palpating kind of freaky.  I'm becoming more and more convinced that all of this social media biz (blogs included! ..dang it) perpetuates an idea for each individual that he or she is god.  Actually.  Increasingly over the years, as new technology has sprouted of the ground (where all good technology comes from), we're all distanced ourselves from each other a liiiiiiitle more.  We connect in such a different way than people did 50, even 20 years ago.

Embarrassingly enough, sometimes I'm afraid to call my friends because that seems "too personal".  Whaaat?!  That's bogus but it's honestly how I feel.

And all of this distance is turning people a little bit apathetic, a whole lot narcissistic.  Think about it.  Your world revolves closer and closer around yourself.  And we lose community.  Everything becomes relative.  You can post pictures of a campaign for abortion rights and a video to spread awareness for child soldiers in Uganda right next to each other.  It's so, so relative.  You can say whatever you want, criticize whoever you want, bully whoever you want.  You can be whoever you want ( in a bad, bad way).

We are only devoted to what interests us.  We live in that instant world.  And in the midst of the instant and relative we find it hard to be compassionate.  My goodness, we have some egos.  To think that we could kill the planet.  The same people that say that the earth has been around for millions of years are the same ones who say that if we don't stop polluting, the earth is going to crumble!  Millions of years and WE force Mother Nature out of existence?  Pleeeeease tell me you're kidding.  We decide the difference between a miracle baby and a nuisance, one gets the nursery the other gets the garbage can.  We're really that evolved?  Determining the worth of whatever-you-want-to-call-it-which-ends-up-being-a-child?  We're qualified?

Then we must be qualified for pretty much everything.  And if that's the case, and nothing is above us-nothing too far out of our grasp-then we must be god.  And a comfortable god at that.  Still seated in our warm home, we save thousands of children with a click of a button.  We did good.  Another day of helping humanity.  Thank god us for us.