Why does life need to point to something beyond itself? Life isn't an abstraction upon anything, there is only truly "Void" or "suchness" in the Universe. Since life isn't an abstraction it points to nothing, leaving no "meaning" to life. Therefore, one cannot "get" anything out of life. When the past and future are seen as they truly are, illusions all one is left with is the current moment. From here one sees living is nothing but the current moment, ever changing and impermanent as is nature and all of existence. All that is left to you at this point is to laugh, and realize you are part of an impermanent organic system: "all of this".