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I'm more of an existentialist than an essentialist. An existential humanist, to be more precise. Think Satre's "Existentialism Is a Humanism."
In relation to the OP, this means that we are free to assign meaning or purpose to things, but we are also free to say, "Fuck it." It is ultimately our individual minds that decide what we do with it; there is no imperative.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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