It’s the notion that you’re infinite that enthralls me. No, not the religious infinite explanation of a heaven and “happily ever after”. The non-cognizant explanation.
Although you will die, your ego and physical body will decompose, all the energy of you will live on in a different form. Different religions have varying spins on this concept, such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism.
We will all die, but we are all part of the universe and that universe will live on. We, in a sense, will live on just in a different form.
The fact is that energy doesn’t disappear, it just changes form. We are energy and our life is merely a phase of that energy. We, our conscious beings that represent that energy, will die and live on again in a different form.
The hardships of life and death are the challenge and management of an ego.
It’s temporary, it’s as meaningful or meaningless as we make it out be, but in the bigger picture, we are all as meaningless or meaningful as we perceive. We are both parts of a universe and are the universe.
So that leaves one to ask, what is the goal of life?
Living in accordance with nature accompanied by virtue, or more specifically the four cardinal virtues as introduced to us by Plato. Wisdom, Courage, Justice, and Temperance.