Do you want to find purpose and meaning?  Serve those whom God has placed in your life.  Do you want to find yourself?  Then loose yourself.  Do you want to get to the top?  Go to the bottom and serve.  Stop living to receive and live to give.  Start celebrating the good things in the lives of others.  We seldom find the meaning of life in isolation from people around us.  We do not even acquire an identity for ourselves apart from the people with whom we have associated.  Purpose is found in mission and serving.

“Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it.” Luke 9:24 (NASB)