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Tricked by The Game Of Life

The irony of beings with life living on things fallen and dead, like serene music orchestrated by life's law following a directive called "existing," at some point all will fall, from astronomical down to molecular forms, but in the ashes of space life will take its form; we ourselves are from non-living but existing materials; we are born from the gore of stars.
For millennia to come, evolution is restricted to the process of existence; such life is bound to limits, like Conway's Game of Life, where cells given simple instructions of reproduction and destruction birthed minimal autonomous life, yet the only judgment from its limits is within us; we know it is limited by basic rules because of the fact that we are far from "basic rules." We can dance, sing, write, and do many more things, but how do we know we are not imprisoned by reality's laws? 

Going back to many millions of years, when our so called abilities were just mere smelling and taste, no living being at that point can comprehend the sheer power that evolution will explore, the fate of life seemed to be pointing to a newer existence, and then humans were born, with that said when was the last time you thought of creating something new?, or even have an idea of a fundamentally innovative thing?, maybe a dance step? Or a musical lyric? Those are not just questions but things that might prove fruitful in the future of living. Basic actions could impact a multitude of things, just like the simple instructions of the cells in Conway's Game of Life, where plain or random positions could impact the other cells and create abstract art illustrated only by basic commands. 

The picture illustrates Conway's game of life cells creating different patterns by progression.
Image taken from https://playgameoflife.com/, It depicts the progression of pattern.

In regards to this process of living, humans Take a different route, favoring a pleasurable existence rather than suffering; our repression of pain made us forget how awful we treated forgotten and dead things, even though the construct of our beings was formulated billions of years ago. 

Mourning could take days, weeks, months, or even years to fully escape the mind of a person, but even mourning wouldn't stop the inevitable of forgetting the memories of things that used to live. Some faded things are not always things that are tangible or living; there are lost ideas, cultures, languages, and music, all unrecorded and will be lost in time; even with modern technology, there are lost media that will be forgotten by future generations.

I am not suggesting endless mourning or eternal investigation into lost things, but I would like you to perceive that what is lost will become something new; deceased bodies will give nutrients to the soil, insects, and microscopic organisms that will consume it; even the death of archaic concepts will reward a fruitful future; concepts that bear the symbol of death and suffering will be immortalized as humanity's mistake; even the death of celestial bodies will someday form another celestial body or even life far from what we know it. 

So do think of the countless possibilities of this tiresome process called existence.   
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