If you need a meaning with your life, you have to invent it or get it from someone else. The meaning is not out there somewhere in the yard like an Easter egg placed there by The Easter Bunny.
It's wonderful to find meaning in life. It feels good. To live a life without meaning or purpose is hard. We're not made to live without meaning.
Historians have identified 22 000 different Christian churches, denominations and sects in the history of Christianity. Isn't that amazing, 22 000 different interpretations of the same book?
There are also tons of different kinds of Hinduism, different kinds of Islam, different kinds of Buddhism. This must reasonably mean that you are free to invent your religion or your interpretation of a religious teaching if you feel like it.
You can, of course, also invent a secular philosophy of life or some other kind of belief system. You're free to concoct whatever beliefs you want.
Most people, however, don't have to worry about inventing beliefs or the meaning of everything. They simply believe what they have been told to believe. Family and friends, school and MSM, provide the answers to all questions about the meaning.
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