What is the goal function of life?

Life is a canvas for experience, love, struggle, beauty, boredom, surprise. Inanimate matter or energy cannot birth these.

Life can track changes in the environment over time and respond. Inanimate matter is inert.

Feeling pretty lost IS part of life, thus. Your curiosity is an expression of life. Seeking peace, solace is not something non-life can do.

On individual level it’s about balancing short term pleasure with needed sacrifice for long term goals that bring greater satisfaction, in particular goals based on contributions to your community of interest (family, friends, humanity, etc).

Create a new landscape for your own life. You may be feeling low right now, but that's okay—once you sort through your emotions, you'll begin to see a new and beautiful view ahead.

Make it to the end alive. Preferably with others alive around you who like you, and (also preferably) aren’t about to eat you.

Replication.

Entropy conservation.