How Can You Have Too Much Meaning?
There's two ways-
- You could feel too strongly about the significance of something which could result in anxiety and fears because of its importance to you. Like a relationship or a job that meant everything to you until it ended. The feeling of significance therefore will be useful in some contexts and harmful in others.
- This is related to the intellectual idea of meaning. If you have a strong set of ideas about what something means, it can prevent you from seeing it in different perspectives which might be necessary to solve certain problems.
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