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Here's a 'nugget' for you all:
"Meaning" is what we seek when we are not enjoying ourselves. To cognitively process the pain/suffering from not having our way, we ask "why?" - hoping to reduce it's qualitative blow.
The Why of life, is that life is an experience, from the point of view of evolution. THe ability to experience -putting us beyond reflexive bateria with no qualia of experience or memory- is the ability to learn from each experience and develope better ways to 'live'.
Thus, in a properly working organism, positives should always outweigh negatives, with the incentive of 'improvment' to learning.
So, meaning in life is secondary to enjoyment, but necessarily we must all face it because we cannot possible be enjoying ourselves all the time. Meaning soothes and reduces our unavoidable worldly suffering - knownly cognitively that we suffer and retain those experiences is evolutionarily so that we are forced to learn from them - paving the road smoother experiences of future generations.
The "why" of why do we exist is what Buddha referred to as the metaphysical - that is, why does something exist rather than not. We can only assume that life must be worth living otherwise why would it exist? And if you disagree, it must mean you're doing something wrong.
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