Were you happy at age 23?

[renard_ruse]

New study says people are most happy at age 23 and age 69.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/hea...-2-ages/ar-BBzQKNF?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

I call BS. I was miserable at 23. Possibly the lowest point of my life.

Frankly everything from about middle school until my late 20s I was not a happy camper. Some of that was by choice, I thought it was cool to be angry and unhappy.

I would say my 30s were much happier. 30-35 were up and down 35-40 were the best years ever. 40-41 was a bit of a down point, but I bounced back pretty fast.

I would say 37 was the best age.

46 now and I'm just kind of content, too busy to worry about it and there's no point anyway. Basically just enjoy every day as a gift and not let the media and current events get me down too much. It all goes way too fast not to cherish every day.

 

[shewantsmore]

Cant say i was that happy at 23 no,i was married and no longer carefree

 

[jezzilee]

When wasnt I happy?

 

[Ms_Ann]

New study says people are most happy at age 23 and age 69.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/hea...-2-ages/ar-BBzQKNF?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

I call BS. I was miserable at 23. Possibly the lowest point of my life.

Frankly everything from about middle school until my late 20s I was not a happy camper. Some of that was by choice, I thought it was cool to be angry and unhappy.

I would say my 30s were much happier. 30-35 were up and down 35-40 were the best years ever. 40-41 was a bit of a down point, but I bounced back pretty fast.

I would say 37 was the best age.

46 now and I'm just kind of content, too busy to worry about it and there's no point anyway. Basically just enjoy every day as a gift and not let the media and current events get me down too much. It all goes way too fast not to cherish every day.

Move out of your mom's basement Mike.

 

[thør]

At 23, I spent the summer touring around the USA in a van with my wife of 2 years. It was a fantastic honeymoon. And then, I went to grad school.

 

[naughtyjosh]

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

[adrina]

No. 23 was not a happy age for me.

 

[KimGordon67]

Y'all understand that these studies are based on statistical likelihoods - i.e. that 23/69 are the ages the *most* people in the research were happy (or, if their working a different way, the average age of happiness - in that instance, it may be case that no one was actually happy at 23, but 50% of them were at 22 and 50% at 24, meaning the average age of greatest happiness is 23 - I'm over-simplifying to make a point, obviously). The headline is amazingly misleading by suggesting that it's a universal in it's use of 'you', but very very few studies that involved alive human beings have any findings that are true for 100% of them,unless it's that 'they're breathing' - that's just not how statistics work.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[james_1957]

Y'all understand that these studies are based on statistical likelihoods - i.e. that 23/69 are the ages the *most* people in the research were happy (or, if their working a different way, the average age of happiness - in that instance, it may be case that no one was actually happy at 23, but 50% of them were at 22 and 50% at 24, meaning the average age of greatest happiness is 23 - I'm over-simplifying to make a point, obviously). The headline is amazingly misleading by suggesting that it's a universal in it's use of 'you', but very very few studies that involved alive human beings have any findings that are true for 100% of them,unless it's that 'they're breathing' - that's just not how statistics work.

Your post is amazingly full of unnecessary bullshit.

The OP asked if you were happy at 23.

 

[jaF0]

I don't recall ever being 'happy'. There may have been a few scattered days here and there that were less miserable.

 

[KimGordon67]

Your post is amazingly full of unnecessary bullshit.

The OP asked if you were happy at 23.

Well, yes, but he also cited the article and then said 'I call BS.' The research is not bullshit - it's just about statistical likelihood, not universals. If the OP wanted to, he could have said 'This interesting research says most people are at their happiest when they're 23 but this wasn't the case for me - here's why I'm in the statistically smaller group. How about you?'

My post has no bullshit in it at all. That's how stats work. And I have no idea why you've bolded my point about the headline - it IS misreporting of the actual research.

 

[jaF0]

See whut I mean Verne?

People bickering over whether bullshit is bullshit or not. Real happy fucking world ain't it?

 

[Fata Morgana]

Yes, very. It was a great time for me.

 

[jomar]

Yup, I was good then, happy times.

 

[subtle_Dom]

23 was a great year for me.. only following ages 7, 8 and 10 which top my list (had a rough patch at 9)

 

[lovecraft68]

No, I was a mess. I'd say the best age for me was about 30 or so when I finally got out of my own damn way and made a few good decisions for once.

 

[Liar]

Eh. It was all right.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I think I was more angry at 23 than anything else.

 

[Adre]

I don't recall thinking about happiness back then. I'm guessing I'm much happier now though.

 

[pollynova]

I'll let you know when I get there.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[pointless]

i'm pretty sure i was stoned most of the time, so... probably?

 

[FGB]

Certainly one of the best years of life.

I had no clue what heartache the next year would bring.

 

[Christobal]

I was happy at 23. Of course at that time the only thing that mattered was getting laid. I was quite successful. Now I have learned there are a lot more important things.