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Meaning of Life?

What is the meaning of life? Are we just mere organisms inhabiting this vast world with no purpose but to contribute to the survival of our species? This question has bugged me for the past nine months. To find the answer I read and watched philosophical books and videos. In my quest to search for meaning in my life I came to know about a philosopher named Albert Camus. According to him, life is meaningless and that we should give meaning to our lives. This idea was really interesting but I could not provide my life with any meaning. After all, I am an average student from a small town who has not achieved much in life except occasional good marks. So, I kept reading more books since I was not satisfied. A month later I read about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a book called "Mastery". While reading about him I found that he had a deep sense of purpose in his life which can be seen from this sentence he wrote to his father: "I am a composer... I neither can nor ough