i think those types of questions are only understood when you aren't really trying to figure it out. by just being you are fulfilling some sort of purpose in the universe.
Questions must be asked of everything sister. If we don't ask questions then how can we ever know. All human beings have a disire to know the answers of life's questions. What is the meaning of life for a tree, a flower, a chipmunk? All things have a place within nature and nature has its place in all things. Life is a never ending circle of questions, answered or not, that are answered infininty over in the life after this one, and the life after that one.