What is life about?

Self is in a deep contemplative mood for the last few days.The question upper most in the mind is what this life upto and what its purpose. Truly no meaningful answer is forthcoming. whether man is just another species among the fifteen lakhs discovered so far. Sometimes one is tempted to beleive so. It is not established till this date that animals have sixth sense and thinking power.But there is no doubt that they have survival instincts and emotions like love and hate.Their only handicap is that they can't intervene in nature and create artificial comforts. In that respect man is superior. Even then no man can live forever, he can only extend his stay in this world for a few more years.Then why all these conflicts. contradictions and wars.Man usually quarrel over fictitious things like religions, gods, castes , regions and even in the name of patriotism.It is not one's selection to be born on a particular part of the earth.It so happens that where ever man and woman cohabit a progeny is born.We seek comfort and pride in the belief that God,the fictitious super power, really blessed us to be born as an Indian , as a Brahmin,as a Nair etc etc. This misconception has been going on for centuries after centuries.Perhaps it is a consolation that prompts people to live with more self pride. In the end where all these glories go? Almost everybody know the answer to this question. But no one is willing to admit this fact till the last breath. That's the greatest mystery of man's thinking. So the self wonder is man really a wise species as he claims to be? Can't he live happily with the resources available to him and without destroying the nature? Still searching for an answer to this nagging query.