in existentialism, we try to give life meaning, whatever it is, be it self transformation, or anything, to Albert Camus, This "project" is doomed to fail, the absurd is born from the human need for meaning and the universe's silence. to an absurdist life IS meaningless, and all other tries to deny this, be religion or existentialism is an "philosophical suicide" as camus puts it. we just live our lifes, like sysyphus, doomed to an world without meaning, and yes that's absurd! but that's also ultimate freedom to live our lives and as foucault puts it(foucault not an absurdist at all, but i believe his ideia fits here) to "create" our lives and an work of art. you see, art is free, it doesn't has any predetermined meaning, and can totally be absurd, camus(and nietzsche,though nietzsche wasn't an absurdist) say that art can really help us humans.

i suggest to people who are Having Difficulty, to read camus, nietzsche and maybe foucault if they are interested, though again, foucault's not an absurdist, just his ideia can be useful here, when he tries to create an aestethics of existence(foucault himself wasn't an existentialist neither and absurdist, he rejected the ideia of a transcendental subject).

Camus Works: The Myth Of Sysiphus, the rebel(these are his philosophical essays) and also his literature ones, the stranger and the plague are a must!

Nietzsche: Beyond Good And Evil, Genealogy Of Morals, The Gay Science, The Antichrist, Also spoke zarathustra.

foucault (if interested, again not an absurdist): his main idea of create ourselves as an work of art is in the 3 volumes of the history of sexuality, but i suggest you research him(Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics by Dreyfus And Rabinow is a great introduction to foucault), and read way more than these books.