Then what? Continue peaking, or does happiness return?
Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak.
Submitted 7 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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HeyJoe@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I haven’t read this study, but I’ve heard most people tend to be their happiest after their kids move out, and near retirement. You have more time to do the things you want, have more ‘extra’ cash than before, and are still in decent health. Obviously this is on average and varies by person.
bahbah23@lemmy.world 7 months ago
People have kids that can move out? And they have money for retirement? I’m guessing this isn’t in America…?
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Maybe don’t have kids in the first place if they make you unhappy.
Besides, if the kid had a say in it I doubt they would consent if they knew what kinda future they were heading into.
hOrni@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Fuck that. Starting tomorrow, I’m drinking even more. I don’t wanna live to my 40s if it’s gonna get even worse. Got almost 3 years to completely destroy myself and I’m sure as hell gonna try.
BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
You’re telling me I have 22 years to get WORSE???
Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 months ago
I’m ahead of the curve then. I’ve been peak miserable since 16.
taanegl@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ha! Jokes on you. I speedran that shit by having my 3rd PTSD in my 30s… that’s one for my 10s, one for my 20s, and one for my 30s…
I hate this world, there is no god and I’d like to get off this planet please.
pregnantwithrage@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’re not alone, just remember that. Shit is rough right now but exhaust your resources before exhausting yourself.
billwashere@lemmy.world 7 months ago
54 kinda sucks.
ikidd@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Can confirm
tabularasa@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
48, can confirm.
froh42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It got better, that time was peak responsibility.
cmrn@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Only thing I outperform my age bracket in
Monzcarro@feddit.uk 7 months ago
And when I do peak, you’ll know. Because I’m gonna peak so hard that everybody in Philadelphia’s gonna feel it.
tastetheplague@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Goddamn, I hope it doesn’t get worse that it is right now.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Some people call the forties middle age when the truth is most hit middle age in their thirties.
peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Sometimes it gets better, not promising it will…but it might.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I legitimately hated Witcher 3 as a game hears guns being cocked over her hot take Witcher 2 was better, and even I didn’t think that was anything special… dunno if that helps or if it made it worse… anyway
But The Witcher was peak Television… until it wasn’t and Henry Cavil just kinda gave up and left over it.
Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
44, must have peaked early.
notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Seems like a very good crossover of having teenagers as a parent, senior responsibilities at work, and the realization that you ARE getting old, and you can’t even hold your liquor the way you used to drown it all out (not that you should manage your anxiety with alcohol anyway).
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I loved my late forties, and I love being 50. A lot is hard for me right now but the good things are good and I’m grateful for feeling like I fit in with my friends and at work.
froh42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Being 55, I agree.
daddy32@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So, did it get better afterwards or just plateaued?
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Same age, but shit’s just gotten worse every year for a good decade or so for me.
froh42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
See, for me - I crashed in that time, burnout, divorce, financial problems.
I’m rebuilding my life now step by step, and I’m rebuilding it in a way I don’t get into overload too much anymore.
I learned to offset stressful times by time off, for example, and 4 out of 5 weekends I relax. (And, yes I do allow myself to cheat, but I’m aware I go into “credit” energy-wise. So in total I take care m energy account stays positive and my life is so much better for it)
Decoy321@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Lol. All you yung’ns who think you’ve hit peak miserableness.
You sweet, summer children. You haven’t even begun to feel the true depths yet.
modifier@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Is that a crest I see before me?
db2@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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