Well one thing I believe is: `The meaning of life is to find meaning in life`
Another quote I live by is, by Bukowski:
“Find what you love and let it kill you” – Charles Bukowski
I mean it makes sense right? Many people just haven't found their passion and go round like headless chickens!
The stories we make up inside our fish bowls most likely have very little to do with reality.
“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” – Helen Keller
“Through love alone can man find the kingdom of heaven for which he has sought since his beginnings. Only through living love as a principle can he find the happiness, peace and prosperity which lie in his heart as the greatest of his desires.” - Walter Russell
On the flip side I think the very modern take on "life = experience" can be badly interpreted. The trend is more about consuming experiences and destinations rather the living experiences, you could describe them as commercialized experiences (Disneyland, holiday resorts in very touristic countries, &c.)
Not looking for meaning doesn't mean spending the rest of your life at Disney Land.
Life is fleeting, love is fleeting, everything that means something is fleeting; framing and clinging destroys its essence.
the older I get the more I see the point of living as basically the same as everything in nature - propagate your genes as much possible and give them the best chance of them propagating their genes. Everything else is try and and fun and help humankind
Ok, how do you find it? Oh, we don't know again :)
The right answer to 'what is the meaning of life?' is to ask for definitions of terms. What do you mean by 'meaning'? How do you know life has or ought to have such a property, that you'd go looking for it?
In other words, the only right answer to 'when did you stop beating your wife?' is to point out that it is a loaded question aka invalid question, instead of scurrying to try and answer it :)
Meaning of life is a variation of when did you stop beating your wife. One presupposes you did beat your wife, the other presupposes there exist meaning and it is important to find.
Those are unjustified presuppositions.