We can’t know if life has meaning or if it’s meaningless. The world is a hard, confusing thing that we humans can’t understand; therefore it is impossible for us to understand if there is a universal meaning or not.
In Absurdism life could be meaningless or it could have meaning outside our grasp. At the end of the day, for absurdism, this question doesn’t matter because whatever the answer is, we are equally stuck in a meaningless life, unable to comprehend the world.
Sisyphus Shrugged 