That was really quite beautiful. Nothing really does matter. At least on an objective level. It's our mind that creates meaning for our lives. An idea that I've been thinking about lately is instead of trying to find meaning in our lives we can live a life that we value.
We basically attempt to figure out our own personal values, maybe through conversation or even from value lists found on the internet. There are lists of 100s of value words that can be found easily. We then break down the list into 2 groups - "important" and "unimportant." From there we can pick 3-5 values from the important list that we consider to be "most important" to us. Then we use those values that are most important to guide our actions and behavior in life.
Does this decision/action/behavior align with my value of (...insert value....)? Does the action take us away from our values? By asking ourselves these questions we can live a life of personal value. I'm just starting to toy with the idea but it's starting to make sense to me. People often behave in ways that are out of alignment with their own values without even realizing it or giving it any thought.
Thank you so much for your comment @leaky20! ^^
Indeed, people act in ways out of the alignment with their own values because they just get lost in the values of others, in the rules the society has assigned as norm and sell people the blueprints of how their lives should look like. Guess we just sometimes are not aware. We don't pay enough attention whether things align with our values or not and some haven't even explored what they actually stand for.
You are onto something there for sure :)