Is life ordained from above and do we have any choice?what makes life meaningful and is there any purpose to life except to serve?

Why are we born?what we do while we are living?Are we making our life meaningful? Will we cease to exist after death? Is there anything in afterlife apart from lingering in t,he thoughts ofrelatives and friends and some known persons for  a while!

Is everything already programmed?Are we puppets in the drama of life? Shall we say there's nothing in life worth complaining or grieving because it's all maya and illusion or everything is there, and life is to enjoy the beauty and it's absurdity, but we hardly notice it...

All these philosophical questions matterto those  who are well placed and well settled and for the majority of the population in the world every day isa hell and every step that they take dims their hope and disturbs their determination while seeking job or getting  health care and shelter?

Why are some people selfish to the core, more greedy, more  mischievous and arrogant, more ambitious and more trecherous in indulging in corrupt and immoral practices, full of hatred and vengeance and more keen in appropriating the power and wealth and  to do all kinds of atrocities by dishonest and foul means and so on..Valluvar says this needs to be researched and investigated..