Sure, we're all background characters in other people's stories, and our lives are not notable enough to even make us a mid-level villain/supporting characters. If we are lucky, we'll make it as one of those in the horde that charges headstrong into the enemy lines. Or one that shouts more than fights, as displayed by the ground soldiers in the old Mahabharat.
But that's all understood. It's also understood that at least in our own stories, we are the central characters.
That's a mistake. Some of us (present company included) are not even main characters in our own stories -- we are characters who just happened to have a point of view in someone else's chapter, in our own stories. Imagine Harry Potter series, where Harry Potter is just a character : "Oh yeah, met Harry Potter today, got lunch. He seemed stressed out about the tournament, but I told him everything would be ok." or "Hermione's cute, I wonder if she's going out with the redhead', etcetera.
So what?
The Gods, and of course there are Gods, are, in the grand schemes of things, just and unimportant and insignificant than us. For they must follow a coherent set of rules and laws that govern their existence (or creation, or Tribhuvan) full of all eternities and universes, and so they too are inconsequential to those unbinding rules as we are to theirs. Their stories may be more fascinating, more magical, but in the end, they don't matter. Their stories, and the significance of their existence, are as pointless as ours.
Let that sink in. We are on the same level as them.
Yeah.
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