Finding Your Meaning: The Key to a Fulfilling Life #shorts

20 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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Charles Cormier argues that meaninglessness drives suicide, and that having a purpose, whether spiritual or personal, protects against self-harm. He frames meaning as a matter of attention: where you focus determines whether you're driven by purpose or scattered by comparison and distraction.

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Meaninglessness is the ultimate source of suicide. If you have a meaning to live for, if you have a purpose to live for, if you believe in something bigger than yourself, you can call it God, you can call it source, you can call it love, you can call it Bob. It doesn't matter what you call it. If you have something bigger than yourself, you are infinitely less likely to kill yourself.
Period. Yeah, I view the world through a biochemistry lens. So meaning means attention. Where does your attention go? Does it go on your one meaning, your one thing, or does it go towards comparing yourself with Bob or watching Janet strip herself on OnlyFans, you know? So is that, is that a good equation for meaning? Where do you focus your attention? Well, answer that and also answer how do you find your meaning?