It is my philosophy that humans invented meaninglessness, because things automatically mean themselves. It was a useful invention, vital for language for a thing like the letter 'Z' to be allowed to not mean itself, a funny squiggle, but we've been confusing and demoralizing ourselves ever since we created meaninglessness.

If life, which includes everything you will ever know, feel, and experience, somehow meant something less than life, something other than life which would have to be a subset of this totality, would this not be demeaning to it? And life forms value things. That's how you can tell something is alive and not a rock, it acts goal oriented. Even a plant will activate defense mechanisms in response to predation. Life is part of the universe, not something that happens to be in it. So the universe automatically has value, though whether you care about that is up to you and your code of honor.

I call my philosophy autovaluism, or automeaning. It's a choice of definitions.