Trip or path or way to live …
Everything starts from the beginning, from the step number one and then follows the next one.
You cant bypass any step you do, as everything flows through the Time river. But sometimes somewhere there may exists some wormholes in time line like in the picture here …

Is life we have given a Game or not, it depends who asks it. The milestones in Time, depend on our selections we do here on this realm, we live here now and always in present.