“Transitory preference” is okay by me. Whatever universal meaning you envision is nothing more than a similar ephemera. Your belief in it becomes your purpose and defines your meaning, but that significance is always “realized” in some other vague, undefined realm.
In the Here And Now, I am free to make whatever meaning I choose, just as you are. If life has no meaning, neither does death. So I’ll CHOOSE to live. For no better reason than I choose to.
No, you'll just choose to live for the time being - that's the only control you have and you only have that for a little while. I know that I am serving the purpose of my creator and savior who has a plan and is working it out as conceived from the beginning of eternity. I know everything that happens is part of that directed plan and my life has meaning knowing this and direction participating in it. It is unshakable and eternal. It certainly isn't my purpose, but the purpose of my creator. I don't choose this, it is the truth whether I accept and believe it or not. But for some reason I was chosen and elected by my creator to understand this and know I will spend eternity with him - that's part of the plan also. The realization of this is now and immediate and I shall always be eternally grateful