I revived this thread. Hoping for more input ... for more hope. It is so very difficult to answer these questions when I didn't find answers myself. The emptiness of the answers and the struggle with the vastness.
I don't want to speak out of turn, but it seems really sad that you feel that way. Would you maybe be interested in doing some philosophical reading and thinking yourself, to work out your own position? IMHO this universe is a wonderful place and doesn't require "purpose" or whatever to make it so :-)
My DC of ~5 wanted to know if the days will end. I asked for clarification to make sure child was actually asking that. Then told child, yes, there is always a new day. It breaks my heart knowing there will be more deeper serious questions coming.
In our house, that question would have been (was!) answered by a discussion of cosmology and what will eventually happen to our Sun, being very careful to make sure it was clear that we're talking about long long in the future!
