The purpose and understanding of life is highly subjective. Philosophy will make different views available to you and make you choose whichever you want and live by it. Is life’s meaning found inherently in life itself? In the activities of life. Or is the meaning of life external to life. Going with the latter will subject one to the belief of an afterlife. That is one whole complicated topic whose answer is not certain. If life’s purpose is internal to life itself, then we simply should live life as it comes. With no worries of what comes after life. Every individual has their own personal understanding of what life is to them. Which makes the purpose of life subjective to every individual. However, different circumstances of life often alter our understanding of life.