Meaning of Life

What is the meaning of life? This is perhaps the singlemost important/worthwhile question a living being can ponder and everyone has different answers (no answer is an answer).

My version of the answer:
Life is living in contradictions where every essense is in contrast to themselves. A perhaps crude analogy would be a sea of contradictions with us somewhere in the middle. We can drown, swim, float or fly away.
Drowning is like suffering where every moment we are living in self-demeaning way, without purpose, lost and aloof. Where we are rendered helpless by the troes of dilemma. Where everything ends up backwards. Where we can't make ends meet.
Swimming is like, moving from one contradictory position to another, leaving deep questions underneath, going on with the everyday life, momentarily happy but stumbling on each new wave of contradiction. In short, living through life and taking what it throws.
Floating is like being at peace with the contradictions. Recognizing them but not knowing what to do about them. Realizing that its futile to struggle, but at the same time fearing that if we dont we won't get anywhere and we might drown. It borders on swimming and drowning and flying and it could go any direction any moment.
Flying is like enlightenment. We are free from contradictions, we have left them behind. We know what they are and we can see them from an unique angle. We also know the way out of them and how others can follow that way and where they stumble. It is like Nirvana. This is also where we end up for a short while when we die. But, in this case we might fall right back onto the sea.

Goal

Any goal is reacheable. Only question worth asking is "how many failures will it take to reach it?".
If you reach a goal in the first try, it could mean that either the goal was too easy or you were just lucky. Such goals are not of great value.
Any goal worth reaching must atleast have a few number of failed attempts.

In the same vein, if it takes too many failures to reach a goal, it could be that the goal is unrealistic. It does not mean its not reacheable though!.
But, it might take away a significant amount of your time and energy. Time and energy which you could have utilized elsewhere.

So, goal setting is important. It would be prudent to budget your energy and time between goals.