"Exist"entialism

The idea of existentialism boils down to one brief yet well-defined line, that human beings and human beings alone are responsible for giving the life that they live meaning as defined by their actions, feelings, outlook, and all other technicalities. There are also many simple lines that define views expressed by an existentialist and can also represent existentialism as a whole. For example, one of the lines is "every human's experience of life is unique and human life is understandable only in terms of the individual experience." Now, while not claiming that I am an existentialist myself, I would have to agree strongly with this idea. I believe there is no way to define human life as  a whole, it is irrational and indefinable. Rather, for one to define life, they may only define it as they see it personally and for that matter, they may only define their own life, for that, if anything, is the only life that they may truly understand. It is in this sense that life is understandable only in the individual experience; what we experience throughout our lives is what is collectively termed as our definition of life and to each person on this earth, that definition will be antithetic. But this defining of our own life, this is what separates us as humans from other species of this earth because for what we know, we are the only beings who find the consciousness to ask the question of "why are we here?" and "does this life that we live have some greater meaning?" Because of this occurrence, I believe that we are meant to ask this question, but also, we are meant to answer it ourselves. Another extreme quote that would come from the existential point of view is the line "their recognition is that from the moment we are born we are sentenced to die." Now, unlike the previous quote, this is a quote that I'm going to have to disagree with. Yes, the reality of it, we all do eventually die one day and that is determined the exact moment our entrance to this world occurs. However, I don't see our death as a "sentence" or something that is given to us just because we "are" or we "exist." I believe death as a continuation of our life, a next step into an unknown. For this reason, I don't like how existentialist's believe that we are only born just to die and that everything in between is irrelevant. I'd like to believe that as an individual you should live your life to your utmost potential and through that a meaning will present itself, and you may or may not recognize that meaning but for everyone, it will be there. That is how I like to live my life each day, to the best that I can be and the search for meaning will not be necessary, the meaning will find me.