"Not doing anything" as you said engages the angsty, existential depression prone side (Why even get out of bed if there's no meaning at all?)
When the factor of a existing greater purpose is removed all sorts of questions arise:
Are we no different than the very basic organisms?
"The meaning of life" is simply biological self preservation and genetic replication?
Escaping from pain, craving for pleasure, so that is all?
Why do anything?
Yes, there's no purpose, no meaning, no reason at all in why we do the things we do. Yes, I don't know anything else than I AM. Yes, technically the idea of a separate self, a doer, is all in all an idea only. Yes, technically there's no me but things occuring on their own. But...?
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