Are You Playing the Game of Life Wrong?

This Is The Secret to True Happiness & Fulfillment

Imagine life is really just one big video game simulation. You’re born into the game and forget you are really a spiritual entity. You volunteered for the experience to learn and see if you can master the true meaning of love.

Before you’re born, you get to choose a few key attributes for your human avatar. You’ve played the game several times before but never unlocked the level required to graduate to the next level of spiritual evolution. Now you’re back playing again for the thousandth time.

You have decided that you are going to be a human named Alex. You’ve also decided that this time you’ll play the game alongside your best friend. They have also played the game many times and decided to reincarnate with you as your twin sibling, Casey.

You and Casey get to choose a combination of three physical attributes and personality traits. You both choose to be good-looking, smart, and ambitious. Having played the game before, you feel these are advantages. You also know that once the game starts, you’ll forget who you really are and be so totally immersed in it that you’ll believe it is the ultimate reality.

The reason this game is so hard is that it forces you to learn the most important lesson in all the universe. The conditions of the game make it incredibly difficult to uncover this truth. You both have no clue what this magic piece of wisdom is, hence why you’ve failed so often and need to go back.

Now you are born along with your sibling Casey and off you go. Childhood is nearly identical for you both. You both have similar traumas and difficulties with your parents, school, and peers. It’s not until your teenage years that the two of you begin to approach life differently. At this point, it is not a conscious choice but what seems like a matter of circumstance. But remember, the rules of this game are tricky. Adolescence presents much greater challenges. This is where things start getting hard for you.

At this point, you start desiring acceptance and belonging on your own terms. You are both tired of being compared to and confused with your sibling. Each of you desires to make your own mark.

In high school, you both have the same romantic crush, and Casey is the one who wins the prize by getting involved with the sport your romantic interest loves. You’re devastated and lonely, and feel hurt you were not chosen, but you are happy for Casey. You try your best to move on and you continue to struggle in multiple facets of life, including romance.

Casey’s life is progressing differently. They are popular, outgoing, confident, capable, and smart. They are always in a relationship and invariably find the hot, smart, and mature partners. They get involved in all the clubs and activities. They become president of the high school. They find themselves head of their college Greek society. They progress on to being a badass corporate professional, reaching big-boss status in their career before they turn thirty.

You? Well, life has unfolded differently. You have tried lots of different things. You loved band in high school. You got a degree in art at your first college. You traveled the world for two years. You didn’t know what you wanted to do, so you went back to school. You dropped out again for a time and finally finished an architecture degree. You liked it okay, but it was not quite the right fit. What you really loved was being outside in nature, and so you spent a lot of time hiking and camping and all the rest. You are pegged as a hippy and a wanderer by many.

And romance? Not so much. You have had a few partners. One cheated on you. One was not nice to you. Another was of the wrong sexual orientation and never told you until you were already attached. For better or worse, you did not hang around and quickly disconnected if you felt things were off or not right. Love just didn’t seem to be your thing.

Meanwhile, Casey continued to kill it in life. By the time you both turn forty, they are already a millionaire who is also married to a millionaire. Both they and their spouse are conscientious humans, kind and loving. Casey has two adorable kids and is a perfect parent, balancing career and home life with ease.

You start to feel inadequate whenever you are around Casey. They are your sibling, and you love each other, but you often wonder what went wrong for you. You can’t help but notice the respect they command and the vast difference in the quality of your lives.

You eventually end up creating your own career in a little-known field called landscape architecture. It combines your love of art, architecture, and the outdoors. You love it with all your heart, and while it earns you a living, it does not make you much money.

You eventually find love as well. It took you a while, but you meet someone who just fits. They don’t want to get married or have kids, but that was never a top priority for you anyway. Truthfully, you never wanted kids. You love Casey’s kids and treat them like they are your own. While your partner and you have no great culture-level achievements, you live a quite content life you chose and are happy with.

And then you and Casey celebrate your forty-fifth birthdays together. It’s a tradition. Ever since you both turned thirty, Casey has treated you both to an exotic trip together alone as siblings. You love each other, and despite your vastly different paths, you have never lost your bond.

It’s there that Casey comes clean. They hate their life, they feel lifeless in their career, they never loved their spouse, and they have been having an affair for the past three years. They cry and despair and lament. You are shocked. Everything seemed perfect. They got all they wanted. This is all they ever talked about. Casey confesses that they never even thought about what they wanted; they were just doing what they thought they were supposed to do. You comfort them and tell them that you love them and they can change if they want, and you’ll support them. They can get out of their relationship, go back and start a business. They can start following their heart now.

For you, it’s a shock they feel this way, but it’s also simple. And at least now you finally feel you can help them. Following your own path has been lonely, filled with rejection, and dominated by judgment. Your entire life, you have felt less than: the least favorite of your parents, the less popular at school, the one who never could make it financially. And the one who struggled to make friends. All that was hard, but you also felt fulfilled because you followed your own path.

Unlike Casey, you were living the life you wanted. It may have been less than desirable from a cultural perspective, but at least it was on your terms. You finally feel you have something to teach and offer your sibling.

After the talk, Casey seems to be ready to make the big change, but on returning home, they go back to their old routine, their old programming, and their old self.

In the five years that follow, you both have immense success on your own terms, but only one of you is happy. On the flight back from your annual vacation that year, the flight goes down. You and Casey are both dead.

Like all the times before, you didn’t know you were playing a game until your spirit “wakes up” and realizes once again it was all a virtual reality game you voluntarily played to learn the most important of lessons.

As you and Casey stand together in life review, it becomes apparent just how different your lives were. You were a human called Alex following a lonely, difficult, unconventional path. No riches, no great success, no hot body, no beautiful kids. You were kind and smart and ambitious and loved your work and did it well.

They were a human called Casey. They were wealthy beyond imagination. They volunteered and gave immense amounts of money to charity. They were beautiful. Even at fifty, they still had defined abs and a tight body. They had a gorgeous, successful spouse who loved them. They had beautiful, kind, productive children. They were also ambitious, smart, and kind. They did not love their life or their work.

And when the points are revealed, who do you think moves on from the game and who is going to have to go back? You, Alex, get to move on. Casey, your sibling, must repeat the game.

And what was the universal truth Alex figured out? Authenticity. Authenticity is the major guiding principle of the universe. We are each spiritual fingerprints, unique extensions of source consciousness, remember?

We are purpose potentials. Pursuing our unique purpose is the entire point of our existence. Whenever we sacrifice what we really want, who we really are, and what our work truly is, we lose. More importantly, the Universe loses.

In the game of human, you learn that you are the way the Universe experiences itself. When you fall prey to the culture-level pursuits of power and popularity, and abandon purpose, you are abandoning your individuality. You are rejecting your Next Level Human spiritual potential. When you do that, you become like everyone else, and the Universe misses out on the unique perspective and experiences your existence would have contributed.

You learned to be the you that you felt called to be, regardless of the cost. That is the only way your spirit can grow and evolve. That is the secret of the universe. So, who are you going to be, Authentic Alex or Culture-Level Casey? That’s the choice we make in the game of human.