Comment by playing_colours

If you focus on yourself as individual, your are limiting yourself to your lifespan, and sure everything seems meaningless in perspective.

Think of yourself as a part of humankind - you can contribute big or small to the goal of continuing the existence of humankind and its further expansion - with your work, raising children, other.

Ultimately, there is no meaning given to us from any source (given that you are not religious), and you search and choose your own.