Since the antiquity people were trying to find an answer to this question. Big philosophers like Socrates, Aristotle and Plato spend a lot of their time searching for the answer. According to Socrates “the unexamined life is not worth living”. Socrates believed that living a life where you live under the rules of others, in a continuous routine without examining what you actually want out of it is not worth living. Aristotle said that the purpose and ultimate goal in life is to achieve eudaimonia ('happiness'). Eudaimonia is not happiness in the short term but the whole fulfilment. In platonism, the meaning of life is attaining the highest form of knowledge.
Actually every one of us has our own answer to this question. When we ask ourselves this question our head starts to fill with more and more questions that can be related to this one. What is the life anyway, is it just a time from birth to death or something more? Is the meaning just to survive or to find the meaning in the surviving like Nietzsche said.
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who developed the belief nihilism. Nihilism denies the existence of genuine moral truths and asserts the ultimate meaninglessness of life or of the universe.
Supposedly we have to find our own meaning. Is there even the answer to this question or does it seem like this is unanswerable question? Why would we even spend so much time thinking about the answer when the answer is us. People seeking to find the answer just waste time and it is the same with the happiness. People think that the happiness is the place they need to find, but actually happiness is a way. So thinking about meaning of life is pointless, people will waste so much time trying to reach the answer they will be satisfied with and they will never find it. But indeed we all have the opportunities to create the meaning. We should create the meaning and follow it. The meaning of life is actually in little things that make sense, that make us happy.
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Human Odyssey, the Path to Existentialism (HOPE)