I treat it as very base: be glad that we are who we are, that we can ponder these types of questions, and that it's OK that we may never get any hints, let alon

I treat it as very base: be glad that we are who we are, that we can ponder these types of questions, and that it's OK that we may never get any hints, let alone answers, to these questions. Feynman has a good answer to something similar to this in one of those interviews from the 80s; he was perfectly okay with not understanding everything about the universe.