Therefore I cast off my flesh and accept that I am nothing more than dust attempting to alter the coarse of other dust on this dust filled rock we call a planet trying to prove that I'm more than dust. Eventually I will die and become dust once again so other dust can feed on the dust that sprouts from me. That is all life is.
There you are quite wrong, you are not simply dust trying to prove you are more.
you are something which gives a $#!+, which makes all the difference that needs to be made. The primary difference between us and a computer is that win or lose it does not care, it does not change much nor would it be able to notice if it did....however we FEEL pain and pleasure and contentment and KNOW that anything we believe or do can change that... we are AWARE that there are consequences to our every move. We are active players in the game, not just game tokens. and we gamble with our contentment and happiness with every move we make and know it. Each of us is unique and fit along a very complex spectrum which may find some hardly feeling anything at any time for any reason and others feeling every little things. Most people are mixed and feel some things strongly and other things hardly SEEM to matter to them.
Where most go wrong is in trying to find meaning outside themselves as if the meaning of life has any meaning apart from anyone alive finding meaning.
There is NO meaning OF life, there is ONLY meaning found by the living.