Individual and the Meaning of Life

Though Nietzsche does not explicitly characterize it as such, in The Gay Science #1 is a rare post-Birth of Tragedy application of the Apollonian principle--as Morality offering an illusion that imparts 'meaning' to the life of the Individual.  However, there is an alternative diagnosis of the search for Meaning in one's life.  In at least some cases, what is sought is integration into something larger, e. g. into the master-plan of a deity.  In other words, one wants to become a Part of a Whole, which a member of a species has been all along, but which is obscured by the Individual-Universal dichotomy that underlies the Apollonian-Dionysian contrast that is the implicit theme of GS #1.