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Wow, you're 19 and you've already concluded that the question cannot be answered? I suppose I made such claims at that age, too.
I have an answer that I'd like you to consider. Please examine the argument itself. The argument depends on the premise that God exists. I can provide detailed support later if you are interested.
The question, I think, begins with wondering why God made us. What advantage does he see in our existing? It seems that he is complete and so there is no need for us. So, God's making us must be because there is something that we can do, that he cannot do, and that he needs for us to do. Unlike God, we have a free will to choose good over evil or evil over good. God cannot such choices because he is perfect and so he has no choice but to do good, i.e., he cannot be tempted to stray from a good path.
Notice that God is all good, lacking even the option to be evil. That sense of "good" is covered by his existence alone. But there is another sense of "good," and that is being morally good which occurs when a free will being chooses good over evil. Thus, can make the best possible universe if he includes a group of free will beings and they consistently choose good over evil. The problem is that he cannot maintain our free will and make us choose good over evil. God then is in the position of making good possible by making us and then he hopes that we will choose good over evil.
Thus, the meaning (or purpose) of life is to be morally good. Nothing else matters.
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