Do People Think About Meaning and Purpose All the Time?

Or was that just me?

“What’s your meaning? What’s your purpose in life?” I swear to you that I heard those questions over and over again as a kid, especially in my teenage years growing up in an evangelical youth group. I don’t know if asking a 15-year-old to ruminate constantly on meaning and purpose is necessarily a good thing. I feel like it may have caused me to have an…