I don't need to look at the sky to do that. I often ask why I'm here & what the purpose of life is. Well what the purpose of MY life is.
Looking at the sky, especially a sky full of stars, makes us realise how insignificant we are on a galaxy scale. But on a much smaller scale we are significant. One answer could be that we're here to do the best we can to make things better for anyone or anything we come into contact with.
Another answer might be, on a cosmic scale, that we matter no more than that single grain sand fifty meters down underground in any beach or desert you care to think of. I often think when I'm dead & gone I'll be forgotten very quickly. Well someone will want the money from the sale of my house, but my stuff, especially my personal stuff, will most likely be carted off to junk shops or to the tip.
So the best we can do while we're here is just to make life a bit better for someone or something else while we can.
All the time. Though there's nothing wrong with just enjoying life without having an "answer".
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.