Finding My Purpose: From Despair to Hope at 25 #shorts #noahstjohn
5 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Noah St John describes a moment of suicidal intent that was interrupted, and how that crisis led him to search for purpose and meaning in his life.

Dr. Noah St John describes a moment of suicidal intent that was interrupted, and how that crisis led him to search for purpose and meaning in his life.
I was just like, you know what? I was looking at the next 40 years of my life, and I'm going, I don't want to be here anymore. I just don't want to be here. And so I made that decision, and I went to do it. And at the very last moment, my life was spared. But I didn't know why. I really didn't know why. And so I realized, I've got to figure out what am I doing on this planet? What is my purpose? Why am I here? You know, these are existential questions that humans have been asking for centuries, right? But I really didn't even know how to answer the question, let alone what the answer was. So I said, I got to figure out what is my purpose.