It seems that we are obliged to answer some version of this question at least once a day.

The answer remains the same ... purpose and meaning are not externally bestowed from on high, they are found individually. To find fulfillment, satisfaction and contentment we do not have to do soaring, heroic, exceptional, transcendent things; ordinary everyday things are not only acceptable but actually to be preferred, because they more accurately reflect our true scope as the tiny, humble, limited, insignificant, mortal creatures that we are.

Some days all I manage to accomplish is to take a good dump. Some days I improve throughput on a critical routine by 25%. Some days I (usually accidentally, so far as I can tell) do something that sends my wife into fits of rapture at my wonderfulness. I find this all meaning enough. The fact that "everyone else" does it or it's been done "for thousands of years" is immaterial. I have no particular need to be seen as (or see myself as) special.

By definition, the vast majority of us are ordinary anyway. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. In fact, accepting your unremarkableness probably indicates you've finally gotten over yourself.

To fuck

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Here is a purpose.

Why does life have to have a purpose ?

This very much depends on how you are defining purpose.
If you are asking is life a part of some overall divine plan in a chain of cause and effect then perhaps you are better off talking to a theologian.
If you mean does life have a integral place in the workings of the universe, in that reality only exist once measured or observed then perhaps the writings and theories of Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger may give you some answers.
However if you are speaking on a purely philosophical and anthropological level then in my opinion the purpose of life is to effect change either negative or positive, to leave the human world different, for your presence having been. I choose to interpret this as it being my duty to contribute to the overall level of positivity in reality, by creating, receiving and passing on joy and love, others will do it differently, but the true evil is to promote neither negativity or positivity but to enable stagnation.

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