God Syndrome -The 'almighty' kid and the puny mortal Ant.

This is a subject on which one can debate infinitely and yet not reach a conclusion; and yet we have some weird attraction towards knowing what is 'out there' - God, the almighty, and some superpower!
This reminds me of some great quotes from the movie - "Bruce Almighty".
Bruce, the central character is really fed up, because he does not get what (he thinks), he deserves.
Sometime or the other every worker ant finds itself in this situation -
"God is a mean kid over an anthill with a magnifying glass, and I'm the ant."

As the movie proceeds, it does put hope in the weak minds by showing an existent 'God';But at the same time, there is also a message, that God (if exists) can only be a facilitator.You have to be the one who initiates and creates change - Work hard and work smart for what you deserve.
God (as portrayed in the movie) says -
“Parting a soup is not a miracle, Bruce. It’s a magic trick. A single mom who’s working two jobs and still finds time to take her son to practice, that’s a miracle. A teenager who says 'no' to drugs and 'yes' to an education, that’s a miracle. People want me to do everything for them. What they don’t realize is they have the power. Want see a miracle, son? Be a miracle."

The worker ant works hard, roams around everyday, to find its grain of sugar, but in vain.It does bring a grain of 'something', but not the sugar it wanted. The "God syndrome" kicks in, the ant keeps on roaming around in the same place over and over again , hoping someday, God will place a grain of sugar, in its path.Little does it know, the miracle it has been waiting for, is in its own hands. So its not just 'hard work' that pays after all; neither just 'smart work'. It has to be 'smart hard work'.

Being from the technology field, I find this syndrome kick in most of the developers while fixing really really crappy bugs. When they don't like it, they blame it on some uncertainty. "God knows; It worked this morning, now it doesn't...."- how the hell will God know about the bugs in your system when he doesn't even have your design documents :).
Another common statement is "I wrote the code 'correctly', it still doesn't work" - This is an implicit way of saying, someone (God or Devil) is making my code go wrong. But it simply means your definition of 'correct' is wrong or what you 'think' you have done, is not what you did. God or Devil (if exists) will have better things to do than to fool around with human made systems, and human written code. This implicit God syndrome keeps the developer from seeing his/her own mistake and is more dangerous than an explicit God syndrome.

Certainly first you put in the bugs, and then you solve it. It is all 'you' all along. So wake up, go out of your anthill, and face the most unsolvable problems in your life and work today. Stop pushing them away in space and further in time. Face them with an open mind, it is 'you' who put them there and only 'you' can solve them. God has already done his job by creating 'you' to solve the problem!

"Godspeed puny mortal ant- Go find your grain of sugar!"