There are a few questions that keep propping up in our mind. For seeking answers to the same, we set our mind, our intellect, our experiences, our observations, our believes, our prejudices etc all in a pot churn them and still crave to find a satisfactory answer.

One such question is :

Why a person after having earned tens and thousands crore of rupees keep amassing more and more wealth despite knowing that ultimately at the end of life he or she is not going to carry any up. Even after perhaps knowing very well that money, wealth is not everything in life.

After a bit of churning my mind I tend to feel that in actual practice, more by default than by design people behave as if life ultimately is the game that we play. We as sapiens are good at developing imaginations and we set up various races. This thought came to my mind while playing my favorite game of “Temple Run” on my tablet. One imagines oneself as the person on the track who runs, crosses hurdles, gains points and ultimately falters which ends the game. We immediately set up the next race with an attempt to score more points.

In actual life, we being sapiens even set up more than one race simultaneously. Race to earn more money, race to have a social status, race to keep our family happy, race to marry the most suitable loved partner, race to acquire lot of power and so many such races.

And , if we take life as a game, like the one on our mobile, in which one can run simultaneous races then life continues to be interesting. If you fail to score in a particular race, you can try again or you concentrate more on the other games or set up the race again.

In such situation, one does not feel excessively happy nor excessively sad by winning or losing a particular race since, one understands that there are many games that he or she is playing and many a times you can set up the race again.
Interestingly, this matches quite well with the KARMA theory propagated by Lord Krishna in GITA.

Why worry because ultimately, it’s all in a game.