Life has no meaning a priori. It is up to you to give it a meaning.
Among thousands of people, you meet those you've met. Through thousands of years, across the boundless wilderness of time, you happen to meet them, neither earlier nor a bit too late. There is nothing to be said except to ask lightly, "Oh, you're here too?"
The body is always present, even in its absence.
A novel is a conversation between the writer and the reader.