Put aside your theories, and let life be what it is when it is. Naturally, you like to make summations of life, as though you have a grip on it. But the progression of life as it is lived on earth eludes you. Life is much more than any theory or definition. Just as soon as you decide that life is one thing, right before your very eyes, it turns into another.
As you grow each day, your view of life changes along with you.
There is some merit in being philosophical about life. Being philosophical bears a resemblance to being neutral. Neutral is noticing life as it occurs. Leave it there, and do not draw conclusions or jump to them. Life cannot be tied neatly in packages, for life is a stream, and streams flow. You really can't stop/start life. You can only be in it. You might as well go where it takes you. There is no telling where it will take you. Life is an unlimited express. You are riding on it.
Perhaps you can be a little more casual. Is life not a singular game?
Your life will play itself out. You are not the predictor of it, though you may be a predicator. Choose your direction. Choose your theme. At least, choose what you want. Like a jukebox that plays jazz, when you press the button likely you will get jazz. Whether your choice is jazz or opera, you must choose it in your mind and heart and let it unfold. There is a big picture for you to choose from. Choose.
You also have a choice to enter life fully without getting lost in it and taken over by it. And yet your life may often seem adrift in a sea of fog and mist.
If you are in a classroom, and that classroom is the extent of your life, woe be to you! If the town you live in is the extent of your life, what are you not seeing? If the state and country and continent your body resides in are the extent of your life, you have veiled your eyes. If the planet Earth is the extent of your life, you are not seeing far enough. If the physical world is the conscious sum total of your life, you are misguided. Would you really choose limited over unlimited?
There is no boundary that encloses you. Burst them all. You are meant to. The boundaries you conceive are only conceptions. They are not real boundaries. They are only presumed. They are your illusions.
Trade illusions for a bigger reality. Trade illusions for Reality.
Imagine yourself rising higher and higher, just as an angel might rise. Imagine yourself seeing a vast plane and then reaching it. Imagine yourself as a launcher of the Universe. Imagine yourself finding the key to it and setting the tone. Imagine yourself on all sides of everything. Imagine yourself within a mighty atom. You are the center of it. Imagine yourself holding the mighty atom you are within. Imagine yourself the precursor of the world. Imagine yourself alighting to earth with new vision held in your hand. Imagine all this, and you will begin to sense your exalted place in Creation.
Unless you imagine greater, how can you grow? Unless you imagine greater, how can you begin to see what you are meant to see? By what right, would you keep a limited picture when there is all of infinity before you? Use your freedom of will to encompass greater.
Wherever you may think you fit, you have outgrown it. You are an ever-growing wave of My love. Now unfurl yourself. Just like angel wings, open up wider and higher.