The Game Of Life, Your Game And Mine

By Joshua Clayton

As we evolve through life and time, there is a certain way we all must swim, go or travel. That is our own choice. What is not our choice is that forward movement that never does stop. Sure, we can try to live in the concrete past, and even make "negative points", but life and existence is always in forward motion like gravity and physics works.

In my opinion and some reality, we automatically go toward what we consider God or the good for ourselves. What I mean by that is we become what we are most genuinely attracted to in existence. Sure it seems like an oversimplification of things. But, is that not real? I mean, even the most evil people in the world are attracted to what they consider "good", right down to "patriotic wars" and all of that for "the benefit of the people".

Sure, I am making this article about the game of life simple to understand and easy to apply, but not easier and not simpler.

So, we all have a Good or a God, even if we claim not to, and that God is what benefits us in our own unique way, really. We have got to serve somebody or something even if it is our deeper selves.

A few minutes ago before I started on this article, I was having a snack and realized that simple truth about life: Even if we are totally evil, ultimately we naturally gravitate to what is good for us, even if we are good, we do not really want to be on the side of evil. That is human nature, there. Like I said, what justifies war and murder in the minds of those committing the crimes of war and murder? At a surface level, nothing is justified. But, deeply: The whole game is justified by its roles, rules, and players. You have the right and you have the wrong. Everybody, including the wrong, ultimately want to be right or win the game.

I was thinking about the play Jesus Christ Superstar, today as I was coming up with this article, and I thought to myself that all dramas, comedies and everything are ultimately games from a standpoint of higher evolution of reality, but they seem serious when you are in them. From wars, to business, to the drama of Christ, and just everything, it is a sort of game with right, wrong, winners, losers and all. Right, wrong or in the middle, we must swim forward or sink and go nowhere. Action is the currency, money, and medium of trade and work. We must make our choice where we are.

My name is Joshua Clayton, I am a freelance writer based in Inglewood, California. I also write under a few pen-names and aliases, but Joshua Clayton is my real name, and I write by that for the most part now. I am a philosophical writer and objective thinker and honest action taker. I also work at a senior center in Gardena, California as my day job, among other things, but primarily I am a writer.