the Wisdom of Q

What does life mean? This is the searching question posed by Qoheleth in the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes. The Message version calls the author "the Quester."It seems to me that the most important question to be asked in this world is this timeless one. How would you answer?  Q says that with a brilliant mind and great wisdom he (presumably) presses various "pretenders" to show that they are the answer to the question. But none of them escapes his scrutinizing reaction "ha! like chasing the wind." Worse, in the Message the paraphrase is "like spitting into the wind." This is even more insulting than trying to chase or grasp the wind - it involves the mockery that returns at the end of the pursuit. It seems to me that the effect of the "Fall" - the brokenness of our world, which seems much like a roof caved in by our own doing and the wreckage falling randomly on and around us, is experienced differently by different people in different times. But perhaps the most common experience of that wreckage is a profound sense of meaninglessness in our lives. And how do we manage this? We tend to live deliberately unexamined lives. We choose an agnostic option that we perhaps have not been offered that mentions the possibility of god but feels no obligation for the integration of that possibility towards a meaningful existence. Q wants to talk!