Black Boy by Richard Wright is a book about a boy who struggles with day-to-day problems, he goes through challenges and many accidents including burning down homes at age 4
“At the age of twelve before I had one full year of formal schooling I had. . . a convention that the meaning of living came only when one was struggling to wring a meaning out of meaningless suffering. At the age of twelve, I had an attitude towards life that was to… make me skeptical of everything, tolerant of all, and yet crucial…that can only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of drama of human feeling which is hidden off the external drama of life”. End of chapter 3. p. 100-101
The principle of this quote brings me to believe that life becomes meaningful when we go through that struggle to make it.