The Meaning of Life

This cannot be proven one way or another. I am inclined to believe that something as complex and inherently wondrous as life must have some purpose and I have a whole load of spiritual, semi-religious beliefs, about how we have come to be and what our ultimate reason for existence is.

But these beliefs are my own and I cannot prove them to be true and will not waste time describing them. But essentially, anyone who adheres to any religion or has formulated beliefs of their own that allow for the existence of more than merely atoms and molecules will tend to see in all of creation meaning and purpose, and quite often the existence of some sort of creator, supreme being, life force, God, that sets creation in motion and guides our course and destiny. Views very much differ on what that purpose is but those who think in terms of there being more to existence than the merely physical realm we can see usually assume some sort of divine purpose, however conceived.

Not too many go on to ask the ultimate question though. If a creator is necessary to imbue existence with purpose, who imbues the creator with purpose? If we assume that everything needs a creator to be imbued with purpose, then how can the creator itself have purpose unless something created the creator? Philosophically,  we end up assuming every creator itself must have had a creator to imbue its existence with meaning in an infinite chain of creators creating creators, which makes little logical sense.

There are only two alternative possible conclusions I can see. One is that all existence including that of any creator itself is essentially meaningless, just a serious of random events playing out. And that nothing we see or have ever known has any purpose at all, just random things happening.

The second is that purpose can itself be inherent to a thing or can develop naturally without any need for a creator at all. And if there is a creator, purpose itself is inherent to it without it having to be created.

This latter seems to me to be most likely, that purpose itself is something that tends to evolve without needing a creator to give it that purpose, though some form of creator or creative force might still be a possibility. Even if philosophically unnecessary according to this view.

Is the question " The meaning
of life" or The meaning of YOUR life"?

They are two very different things.

For life to have meaning it must move something outside itself. I think the problem here is we don't have an accepted and clear meaning for the word 'meaning'