First of all....only important people know... blah blah balh......the narrative is automatically defeating, just because someone understands something differently, possibly more completely but not nessecarily so, does not make them more important than you, or anyone else, it only makes them differently knowing or differently understanding. Yep, I am jealous too that there are somethings that I just do not 'get' and somethings I simply have to be 'shown' as I cannot figure them out on my own...but that does not make me a 'less than', and when I allow myself to feel 'less than' makes it hard to see that there are things that I grasp easier, understand better or more completely than others, and THAT, does not make me any 'more important' when I grasp things better, therfore, I am not 'less than' when I don't......just trying to help with my own an maybe others internal dialogue....
Second, I have to absolutely agree with you about there being something after life here, possibly like coming out of the VR set and back into another reality, a reality that may be something so diametrically opposed to to our current concept of self in this existence, and finding it worse to our liking, would we be doomed to stay an eternity there. Even the Sims Freeplay does not HAVE to go on forever, you still just need to quit playing for the game to no longer continue on. If you do not go back after so long, all your characters will starve and be so filthy and uninspired they can no longer function. I walked away from my sims game almost two years ago after playing it for over eight years. I had 39 female sims and all kinds of magnificent homes, then they took my money and gave me a hard time and told them to fuck themselves, walked away from google, the sims and microsoft and have never looked back, very happy with my mac and iphone, rarely miss my sims and I played for hours every day, for years. I know however, if I were to log onto the game that they all have probably either starved to death or near death and I wold have to play for days straight and give up my life as it is now to get that game back into order, so I don't even look.
When we leave this life, it is not like that. The other in our lives are not sims that we are in control of that whither and perish without us, though for a time, it may feel that way to them, in all honesty, life goes on without us. Therefore, knowing that my kids get to continue on their way, and my service animals go on to serve my husband instead of me and my husband gets to go on and maybe have a home and someone good who can love him much better than I ever could, makes me think I may want to log back into this game and see how things are going, so may that is why I am still here.