My belief is that we choose the meaning in our lives, not such much "find" it. As the old saying goes "The meaning of life is a life of meaning." You can interp

My belief is that we choose the meaning in our lives, not such much "find" it. As the old saying goes "The meaning of life is a life of meaning." You can interpret that many ways, and my interpretation is that we choose to live a "life of meaning" by defining that meaning for ourselves as individuals. But I'm also a radical individualist and something of an existentialist in general philosophical terms. And as an atheist I believe that there was nothing but oblivion before I was born, and will be nothing but oblivion after I'm dead. So all that matters is what happens "goal line to goal line" so to speak. So I choose to live a life trying to do the things that matter to me and that satisfy my own beliefs. But I'm not arguing for pure hedonism or anything. Part of what "matters to me" is exactly "leaving the world a better place", and I hope that something I do in my lifetime has a net effect of making that so, even if in no more than a microscopically small sense.