My Passage Experience

So evidently I'm not as deep as I thought.
I understood that the game was supposed to parallel life, but when we discussed it in class everyone pointed out a lot of symbolism and stuff that went completely over my head when I was playing it. Like how everything was blurry in front of you when you start playing and blurry behind when you reached the end--I just thought that was bad graphics, but it was revealed to represent the uncertainty of the future when young and the loss of memory when old. It makes sense now, but I didn't notice it at the time.
I didn't even notice that the characters were subtly aging until they got really gray and balding. I just kept trucking along the map and trying to get to the end. It was around then that I got the idea that the game paralleled life. Then the wife died, and I was kind of upset. I hung around her grave for a while before continuing on, thinking that there was some end point I was supposed to reach. Then I died, and well...
Is this a bad omen? Is it foreshadowing that I'll fly through life with no idea of its meaning until I'm old and gray and it's too late? I don't know! Maybe I just need to pay more attention when I play video games. They're evidently deeper than I thought.