Remember, it's also an existential opportunity. Granted, most of us seem to rely on Professional Sports Leagues to create meaning and significance out of pure a

Remember, it's also an existential opportunity. Granted, most of us seem to rely on Professional Sports Leagues to create meaning and significance out of pure air, but you have the chance to find something that both helps others and is highly enjoyable to you by wrestling with some of that angst. Bertrand Russell's answer was that the more you involved yourself in helping young people and future generations, and shifted meaning beyond your singular mortal self (Conquest of Happiness, book) by doing that, the happier you'd be. (Since things obviously aren't going to end well for any of us, as individuals.) It is a way of fooling yourself (because heat death of the universe) but ya get to help others and enjoy yourself at the same time. Win-win. A kid's laugh is pure enjoyment, worth adding to the world by and despite any logic. My version of Utilitarianism holds children laughing as the highest good worth working for. Kid's enjoyment is totally real. Beyond that, meaning or purpose ain't much: hammers have a purpose 'cause they're mere tools. Slaves can have a purpose and meaning for their (continued) existence, similarly. But that's not a good thing. A free human being doesn't come with a purpose 'cause we're the thing that confers meaning on other objects. That's a good thing. As the wise old ones say: "Enjoy the show." Or join the Mormons. Or get hired by SpaceX. Meaning can be a contact high.