The problem with the question of the meaning of life is nothing but the kind of answer we expect. We are creatures of stories. We want a tale to fit ourselves to. A role in the cosmic drama is what we need.
But the question does not arise in the moments of joy, in those devoid of suffering. If you look back at your life, you count such happenstances to have given meaning or made your life worthy of living. So the meaning of life can be simply to avoid suffering. Yuval Harari goes further. He says that the moments of the experience of being conscious and being able to have a subjective experience itself can be incredible enough to give meaning.
He says "The most ordinary moment in your life, you are stuck in the traffic in your car. The traffic is not moving. You are annoyed. This is the most amazing thing in the universe. It is in many ways more amazing than solar systems and black holes. We don’t understand, how can anything in the universe ‘be annoyed’. How can anything be conscious? How does some electricity and hormones and whatever, how does it produce a subjective experience of being annoyed?
Thinking about it in a different perspective; may be there is a planet where the atmosphere is just LSD. And the beings there, they constantly live in a psychedelic world. And they take some magic mushroom to experience ‘being annoyed’ in a traffic jam. And it just blows their mind. Ooo! Because for them this is unfamiliar."
The point is that our ordinary experience can be extraordinary, provided we perceive it rightly. Is it possible? Yuval says yes. A sufficiently (!?) long training in meditation can make you able to be amazed by the most familiar thing.
