Some things only appear meaningless because you are standing too close to them.

Proximity destroys proportion. Standing very close to something makes it fill the whole view, and its relationship to everything else disappears, which is why current difficulties feel both enormous and pointless at the same time. Meaning is often a matter of distance rather than of the thing.

When something feels senseless, deliberately widen the frame. Ask what this looks like as one part of a decade. You do not have to conclude anything, just see it against a larger background.