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that's just it, i don't believe there to be a "final answer". I think shit just happens for no reason at all. Sometimes I go through periods where that's freeing, and other times, like now, I go through feeling like it's all fucking pointless anyway, so why even bother.
DANGER - OPEN PROSELYTISING AHEAD!
I unironically recommend monotheism. Like with many things of this category, logic can only get you too far. Once you've understood that this complex entity we're part of called the universe, light and matter in spacetime, either was just always there (or at least the foundations, idk) or wasn't, and that there really cannot be any material evidence for or against it because we're constrained in what we're examining, you're forced to take a leap of faith one way or another.
If you believed in God as preached by Moses, Solomon, Jesus and Muhammad, for instance, you'd know the reason for your existence (to be a good slave of God so we please Him and can fearlessly return to God, the Creator, the Gracious and Merciful; and don't worry, you'll have fun regardless in this world so we don't need to write it down), and the fact that it's God's will would make it as objective as possible (if you believed in all of this, ofc).
Now, you could believe in (agree with on a fundamental level) some philosophical schools of thought like, idk, a mixture of absurdism with Kantian ethics ("life's a meaningless chaos but I still wanna be a good boy"), or something a bit more positive like a Platonic (the meaning of life is acquiring knowledge) or a Cynic (be virtuous and live honest to yourself within your natural bounds/in harmony with nature), and it could work well but these can still be rejected by the mind as they're just "things other people said" and feel a bit "not-final". And, again, even if you keep "digging" logically you'll never get to something final (to this and many other things, check "Agrippa's trilemma"!) and this can lead to very depressing thoughts easily. In conclusion: for pragmatic reasons, because you're still alive and whilst that's going on you might never shake away your desire to have answers to these questions that feel satisfactory and final, I think you should at least dip your toes into Abrahamic monotheism.
So yeah, TL;DR: don't get bellcurved (and needlessly sad) and believe in God today!