I believe meaning doesn’t matter to most people. If asked, they would probably say their life is meaningful, but it’s not of huge importance to them. On the con

I believe meaning doesn’t matter to most people. If asked, they would probably say their life is meaningful, but it’s not of huge importance to them. On the contrary, a subset of people find it immensely important and therefore exceedingly difficult to achieve and are responsible for most of the published thinking on it. By necessity chasing after something that will make you feel you have lived a good life won’t work, because after you’ve done it... you’re still alive. Finding peace with your surroundings also sounds nice, but for some it’s just not going to work- and making peace with the idea that long term meaning is not a good goal is probably ideal. TLDR people are bad at meta-emotions. Also, fear of death, sincerity of love, and self respect.