Life is a Game

Have you ever wondered why something had to be there?

I just finished playing this game before. Almost 50 stages of problem solving, getting from one spot to another, having only sticky goo-balls to use. At times I felt like it was easy, build a bridge, get across, finish. When the stage was more difficult, I would try out what I had in mind first, see what happens when I do it; try out any possibilities, even those that would clearly kill me, to just give it go; work out what certain things did. Very rarely would I have to play the stage more than 5 times to be able to crack it.

However, there was one stage that I just thought, unbelievable. I had to blow up a lot of bridges to get to the bottom, but on the bottom was a bridge, on the right hand side was a torch lit with fire. I had to somehow get that fire to bridge to blow it up. I just couldn't get it to burn. I didn't understand. How can I do this? I tried to launch the ball diagonally at the flame.. The ball just fell into the water below. I tried launching it from above the flame. Nope. I tried launching multi times at the flame. Still nothing. I tried leaving blocks and goo-balls from above, but as soon as they fell, they were destroyed. What do I do??

Then I looked at the left side of the bridge where there was a single short vine where the goo-balls were stored. I started getting angry. I used force to throw all the goo-balls over to the bridge one by one. As soon as it went over, I would throw them over to the flame, whether it fell in the water or got in the flame, I didn't care. Why wasn't I getting it!!??

I was down to the last goo-ball left on the small vine. Then I thought. There must be a reason why this vine was there. I threw the last ball over, and I watched the vine swing. Then it made sense. Swinging!! I had to swing the thread from the bridge over to the flame using the force left by the ball being thrown back and forth between the two vines. Ahhhhhhhh!!

Life is funny in that way. You get so caught up in the problem you're faced with, or the pain that you see in front, that you never really focus on exactly what is in front of you, and what exactly you have to do to solve the problem. You just assume you understand what you are doing. You just think you know exactly what you have to do, but you never really spent the time just being calm and just looking at the scene without any agendas or emotions. Just calmly observing.

I believe in past lives, and I believe that we came back for a reason. We came back to play the game of 'Human Life' - because it's one of those games that we play for fun, to learn something, solve something, pay something back.

Life is a game. Just play it and enjoy.