Well to be brutally honest, I'd say life is a virus. Look at it like this:
Look at the Earth and see how beautiful it looks. Now look at New York. What do you see? It looks like a tumor compared to the forests of Earth.

Anyways, enough with that poetry.
The meaning of life is to give your life a meaning
Find a passion.
I found a passion, I haven't been happier since. Sometimes you need to ignore the terrible thoughts, keep yourself suffocated, I'd say...

About all the war and stuff, call me heartless but I was very happy to see Russia's new tank, the T-14 Armata. Yes destruction is terrible, but it''s hard to change something that's been around longer than man.