What if life was more than a temporal event? What if you knew that you were an eternal being? Would this change the way you experienced life? Would this change the way you reacted to the people and situations around you?
In his book Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse remarks, “A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.” Is life a finite or infinite game? If life is finite then you only have one shot and everything you do is gauged in the light of success or failure.
On the other hand, if life is infinite, and we who experience life are eternal, then success and failure are relative to the moment. In eternity we are free to forever change and improve on our failures, therefore, there really would be no failures or permanent successes, just expanding wisdom.
