According to higher Sanskrit philosophy, life is cyclical. It comes and goes eternally. However, sometimes destruction occurs but not for ever. Yet we are talking about a great deal of time in the millions of years. The idea of creation must be considered from a physics view regarding subatomics. It has been proven that our physical life is an illusion when we get to the point of the atom. Brownian motion was proven by Einstein and therefore, perpetual motion exists. However, at the centre is stillness or what some consider is God. Even geometry has been proven idle regarding its polytope levels wherein no space has been declared specifically. That leaves us with the "self" or our awareness viewpoint as Soul. We know we exist as an individual entity, but few religions will agree in preserving the self. They believe the self should be merged into the collective Soul which becomes unconscious. If that is the situation, what was the point of being conscious in physical life; just a cosmic joke? I do not think so and also pre-eminence is not acceptable insofar as me being the sole conscious one - ridiculous, eh?
Hence, preserving the self as the meaning of life remains important regarding the goodness of it. For if the self is only destructive, we are not long for this world. Much more can be discussed upon this subject.
We don't know where it all came from. Isn't that great?! It's something we can think about, can puzzle out! We know lots of stuff, but answers to the "big" questions remain tantalizingly out of reach - for now!