Life is Meaningless...

Life can be a bitch sometimes. A lot of people know that, and it can be really hard. Bu that doesn't mean it is devoid of meaning. Before I actually get into this debate, I would like to share something: I'm 18, like you. But I've been through a lot. Two years ago, my mother died very suddenly in a car accident. Afterwards, I had a very similar notion to the meaning of life that you have right now. I don't know if you have recently gone through anything, and I don't know if you are or are not feeling like this because of emotions or an actual belief. But I would like to say, if a lack of meaning is emotionally charged, than it really does get better. You really do find more people that you will love and will love you. But, because there is a good chance that your writing style deceives me, and is not emotionally charged, than I hope to have a very good debate with you. I have thought long and hard about this issue, and have come to a conclusion that I believe will sate you either way. I have written it down previously in the form of a word document, and am copy-pasting that, so if some of this feels sloppy or unargumentative, it is because of that. Personal Universalism Theory (The name is probably already taken or doesn't fit, but that doesn't matter.) One could make the argument that, because we are so infinitesimally tiny on the grand scale of the universe, there is no purpose. The end is the same, and we will all be forgotten anyway. But, perhaps, the end is not all there is, and we may be able to find meaning not in the end, but in other life. Life, after all, is unique. Every person experiences only one, and beings tend to cherish it above all else. Life, even at the relatively small scale of us, is wonderful for each person experiencing it. It doesn't matter how much life matters in the end, but rather it matters how good of a life is lived, as each life is personal and extraordinary, despite its scale. So, I suggest, that the end doesn't matter, but rather, the journey. Everything you will every experience will be subjectively viewed through your eyes and mind and body. Nothing will be experienced outside of it. In this way, then, your life is everything. Your personal everything. Each person has their own personal subjective everything, that comes from their senses and minds and so forth. So, the true meaning of life is actually to influence everything. When you change another person's pespective, you change their everything. When you make them feel better, you improve their everything. And so on, so forth. So, the meaning of life lies not in pathetic morality, idiotic religion, and is not unattainable. The meaning of life is to affect as many people's everythings as positively as you can. In the end, your subjective view is everything. And so is everyone elses. Make as many people's everything as good as possible, and you have found meaning. Meaning in the influence you have on the lives of others. Again, it is all scale. In affecting one person, you are both affecting one tiny speck on a speck in a speck of the universe. But you are also affecting absolutely everything, to that person. Worry not about the vast, unviersal, scale, because if you can improve the life of even one person, you have already positively affected everything -- for that person. Sorry that it is a little unwieldy. It is from my own personal notes and not for argumentation, but I do think that it adequatly provides a healthy and possible meaning for life that is more than possible.