What if this life now was a step backwards in spiritual evolution from your "previous" life. This currently being a hell realm, in hell you:
Cant tell whats objectively right or wrong at any point in this configuration
Think you like stuff only to find out later you are deluded
Get attached to pointless stuff & routines which have little lasting meaning
Die and seemingly have limited ability to influence anything here in this realm.
Die but cant leave because your molecules are configured into other forms here over time.
Perhaps every single atom we know of is stuck here until we figure out how to get out of hell.