If there is a higher singular meaning to life, it is indiscernible from the static of the universe. Life itself is a constant test of survivability, and adaptation to suit the confines of an outside world. Life therefore expresses itself through evolution. Somewhere along the line higher functioning brains became a thing and muddled up the question of if life has any meaning. Because of this when people ask if life has any meaning they are instead asking if there is any purpose for anything they do, have done, or will do. likewise it asks if there's a reason for all outcomes that are unfurled by what they do. And finally if it is building toward anything larger as a purpose implies a goal either reached or preceded by. Life as I see it for humans though is the amalgamation everything we have experienced through our senses and noted in our memories along with every important decision, outcome, and lesson learned. literal life and figurative life only meet in meaning as far as these senses and memories combining to yield useful information that is pertinent to survival and eventual perpetuation of genes via children. 

I would say that literal life has a purpose, but that most figurative life has no purpose. At the base implications of the question there can be no meaning to life if it can all be quenched and forgotten with such calamities as nuclear war, plague, rogue suns/blackholes, mass extinction impact events, (for us) red sun expansion, and the eventual and currently science backed end of the entire universe through expansion and chilling of literally everything. The universe does not acknowledge any meaning. There is no definitive meaning. However in that answer there is still room for anyone to find meaning for their life as meaning only exists inside the brain. Life is open to individual interpretation.