I've been there many times with psychs.
The paradox of existence/unnecessary existence.
I came to peace with it, as, yes, in essence, life is not much in the cosmic sense. But theres so much, so vast distances we have yet to travel, so many things to discover.
Western society needs love more than hate, compassion more than intolerance, cooperation more than war, and most of all, a sense of unity.
Bill hicks once said theres a choice between something like that. I've made mine. The meaning of life to me, after realizing how small and insignificant i actually am in the vastness of it all, is that i am something at least.
And the greatest gift i've recieved from my travels, is that love brings us together, we are and always will be together, and even if some may be misguided, confused, there is still hope.
But george carlin makes some good points, and has a good deal of commentary that i think is releveant, though cynical. Everyone has their purpose, the hardest thing to do is find out what yours is, and that may take your entire lifetime, but its there if you seek it.
"let those who have talked to the elves, find each other and band together" -TMK
In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy.
In such a society, also, our private economies will depend less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more upon property that is institutional and abstract, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, etc. And as our private economies become more abstract, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family and community life will be supplanted by a kind of displaced citizenship and by commerce with impersonal and self-interested suppliers...
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.β - Wendell Berry