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I've always thought that meaning is what you make of it. I've always thought of this question of "What is the meaning of life?" as a kind of joke---at the very least, a rhetorical question. Life is what you make of it. If you want meaning, you have to come up with it yourself. If you want purpose, make one. Make several.
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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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