Following is what I perceive to be the gist of our discussion (followed by some sparkles and twinkles in my brain cells, can be called as the leftovers!) spanning over two days.
There must be gazillion instances in the history of time when 'bringing meaning to life' was discussed. The only conclusive thing I can say is that nobody but the stakeholders in the discussion cares about it!! On a brighter side, I think those people are prosperous enough to have discussed this because most of the people around us don't reach this stage but follow the endless circle of monotonous life, struggling.
Pessimistic philosopher Schopenhauer says that 'Human life must be some kind of mistake and is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy'. Maybe he was too harsh to think that life is a mistake :P, but definitely has strong grounds to say what he did say. The question of BMTL obviously do not have a specific answer, but can be simplified(?) in many ways.
- Achieving personal goals
- A spiritual angle - phew! ...'Faith' is what we are talking here; there is something beyond our comprehension which is good and pure and once we get to see that, we produce meaning to our life. The coefficient of skepticism is very close to 1 in this theory :D.
- Doing what you like doing without caring about society we live in, or even morality for that matter (Do you like selling weeds???).
I am no Lord Buddha to conclude anything for sure, these are observations and should be treated alike.
