Importance of understanding the dialectic of Eros and Thanatos

It is vital to understand how we create meaningfulness in situations (eg. life as a whole) that are not intrinsically meaningful. This making of meaning is a general human tendency (an expression of Eros), an outpouring of our attachment to living, which may often become even an addiction to meaningfulness. Those who love life too much (embracing Eros too much) don't see the opposite side of our human reality: the facet of disintegration, and of meaninglessness (the effects of "death"; or Thanatos). Those who see both sides, however, realize that it is wise to strategically impose one's own sense of gradations on life by attributing to events different levels of meaningfulness, rather than assuming meaning to intrinsically exist already in the order of things.