Is it normal to think life means nothing?

How do you know you arnt changing the world?
Everything you touch and do has an effect. You may not always be able to see the effect but it is there. Perhaps in a few generations your future offspring does something amazing... maybe they cure a disease. ..maybe they create a great work of art... maybe they do something amazing. You will not see this happen but who knows? You may even effect people now ...people whos lives you have touched for even a brief moment. You could inspire someone...change someones view of the world... help them in ways you might never know.
your view of yourself is limited and you cant see outside your box... but that doesnt meen you arnt effecting the world.
it is however up to you if that effect is good or bad.

Have you ever seen the show doctor who? Its a favorite of mine...there is a great quote I like from the show...
“900 years of time and space and I've never met anyone who wasn't important.”
I beileave everyone is important everyone has an effect.
The joy you can create can last long after you are gone from this earth.

I bet you're a real hit at parties.

Our lives are so fragile, so short, but so important. You don't have to be famous or noted in history to have a voice in life, our memories and moments stand in time for forever.

I live in a home that someone else built, that someone else spent their life in, and that someone else left to me. We live on a planet that we'll pass on to our children and grandchildren and so on and so on. Everything we do in life matters, what we do today will create someone else's future.

Fuck you.

Yes sounds like your really depressed
hope you can see counseling might be
help for you.

I believe we are here to cram as much fun, enjoyment (excitement?) and pleasure as we possibly can into our lives. If helping others, making money or just raising a family with wonderful kids is what gives one the most pleasure in life, then buy all means, that is what one should do.
Avoiding a pleasurable life because one is afraid of getting hurt, social situations, afraid of death or any one of a thousand other reasons is the greatest sin one can commit.
Come on all you depressed, social anxiety, sexually repressed or confused IINers, please, repeat after me;
Live each day as if it will be your last, but dream as if you will live forever.

We all create our own meaning.

I'll agree that life has no meaning. No predetermined meaning that is. You make life mean what you want it to. To me, success isn't measured by how much money I have or how famous I am, but by how many people I've made happy. I feel that if in one day I can do a good deed, or pay a compliment to just one person and make them smile, the day was not a waste. I guess it just depends on your values.