Where Every Scroll is a New Adventure
Brandon Sanderson said that the purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon, and this is exactly the mindset I use when writing my own novels AND when dissecting my relationship with stories - most recently Gravity Falls, but also stories like Mistborn and Eragon.
The reason why answering what the meaning of life is is so hard is because it's different for every individual: You have to find it, nobody can tell you.
This is why fandoms are so cool; people all have slightly different versions of characters that are important to them. Storytellers put something out there, but us, the listeners, we create what we need from what is given. And that is absolutely beautiful.
So a toast to fandom and all the creativity and self discovery it cultivates.