You Can’t Win
Life isn’t a game.
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In a game, there are rules. There’s competition. Tension is mandated to ensure the most cut-throat player wins.
But what exactly would you win with life? What’s the prize? Death? Everyone gets that same thing. When your material time is up, you die. Period.
Life isn’t meant to be played. Life isn’t meant to be anything.
It just is.
And the meaning for whatever it is depends on who you’re talking to.
For some people, life means letting go of attachment. For others, it means making bank. Some people devote their lives pursuing heaven, paradise, nirvana… even hell.
But all of these pursuits. All of these meanings. They’re meaning less. Because they only mean something for one person. One individual.
Once that person dies, so does the meaning.
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