I wanted to argue with your maze analogy.
I was thinking that in a maze you have a predefined, ordered system within which to work. That’s almost comforting, really, because when faced with a system, it should be possible to devise another system to solve the first.

The maze analogy almost convinces me if it’s infinite maze, that extends in 3D. Then there might never be a dead end or a loopback. But that’s still not right. It has walls. It has a “goal”.

Life, I’d argue, is simultaneously more and less complicated than that. You’re more free than if you were navigating in a maze, but you’ve got less direction. There are no set walls or dead ends to narrow your decisions down or let you know that you’ve taken a “wrong” turning. Instead of a labyrinth, it’s an unobstructed plain or landscape. Go anywhere you want, life says, choose your own path. In fact, you can choose your own goal/win conditions, but you have to reach them yourself. If anything, that strikes me as harder.. but considerably less depressing.

Besides, there’s more to see along the way.