Ask HN: What's the Point of Life?

As I've grown older, this question has been consuming more and more of my thoughts. I like life, and I'm absurdly lucky. But what's the point of any of it?

HN seems uniquely good at philosophical questions, so I was hoping to get your thoughts. I thought about framing the question more, but honestly, "What's the point of life?" is the refrain that I keep coming back to. It would be nice to escape it.

To keep it going, i.e., have children.

To learn to love.

There are some non-dualists who claim to have an answer to that question. Basically according to them consciousness divided itself in order to experience all the various forms of existence and from the point of view of the (illusory) individual self the goal is to discover that they are in truth nothing other than primordial consciousness (ie. what some call God).

Personally I find that explanation circular and unsatisfying. So the goal of life is to get back to what you were before life began, what's the point ?

There isn't one. The point of life is whatever you make it to be. Nothing has inherent meaning or value, until you yourself give it any. Only you can answer that question for yourself.