I suppose you can see it like that in a way.
The problem really is in understanding and seeing the bigger picture,
It is quite easy to get lost in the world, everyday life, finding food, shelter.
In quiet moments, people reflect, ahh there must be something bigger than this.
Then return to everyday living.
There is a saying we are like little pieces of light from a greater shard of light.
A small fire begotten from the large one.
Then in a logical thought process, we are no different from the larger fire and can burn just the same.
The real folly is taking this as truth without ‘realizing’ it.
(a realization is the innate understanding of the subject, in completion without speculation.)
Then the ego takes over, it says
I am the great so and so now, I am just like god,
I have simply been sleeping now I have awakened my grand power.
(the ego is personality imposing on the world to support its ‘identity’ which is, no doubt artificially created and sustained through day to day interactions, you say things that support the reality and the ideas you associate with, and tell these things to other people. (I think this, that is the way it should be, i believe that, etc etc))
Just as you question, am I really doing it for me? or because god wants it.
You see these posts everywhere throughout the new age communities and here even.
Attention makes people feel appreciated, and some like the control it gives them over others.
Most simply live in a pretend grandiose world, which comes crashing down harshly in time.
(there are cycles to human interactions and reactions even, whenever you see people expressing too much love and gratitude on the channel, you will see a reddit post to promote the opposite, its a cult! its Jinns!, these things happen because the redditor poster wants those things for himself (love, appreciation) and hates that anyone else has it, its all ego play and the expression of it. this is the bigger picture)
reverse entropy and entropy in play)
The two constants in the universe are entropy and moments of reverse entropy.
destruction and creation.
If we draw a comparison to the world as is now.
and use technology terms, we can say the universe is a giant processor and we are simply information gathering tools.
It learns and then perhaps as the universe implodes to start again, new variables would be added from the previous learning.
an update so to speak.
Being that everything is made from the universe, all matter has an innate inbuilt connection to the universe ‘consciousness’
All forms of matter have consciousness, it may not be all ‘self aware’ as humans are.
But its there.