Very Sad: People Are Happiest In Their 20s

I didn't really get happy until my 30s. I always felt like I was missing something or that I needed more. I started counting my blessings in my 30s

Well, according to a poll, and we know how painful that can be - David Letterman

I respectfully have to disagree. Twenties are great, but all decades of one's journey can be great.

You're Australian, that's your natural habitat.

I started my family very young, and now that I'm 30 they're all past the toddler stage and I even have a teenager. While my friends were partying in their 20's I was raising babies and some of my friends look ROUGH! They dabbled in drugs and it took a toll on their faces/bodies/souls. I'm still pretty vibrant, even though I have a disease that debilitates me, I'm still healthier than some of them. Now they are trying to settle down, have families, and some are just now popping out babies. Meanwhile, my husband and I are going on adventures, and get to do all the things they did if we wanted to. I'm so much more confident and secure in myself now than I was in my 20's. My health is actually better because I'm not fueling it with junk/alcohol/drugs like they did.

SHE'S RIGHT YOU KNOW!!!!!

I think most of the 20s are spent realizing life is slipping away from you...

I don't call that 'happy', LMFAO. At all.

Cliff notes: If you have kids, you're going to be miserable until they make the idiotic decision to have kids as well.

i was fitter in my 20s looked good in my 30s now seeing the age catch up in the 40s i was happiest in my 30s but watch out girls as niw im in my mid 40s im menaporsal and it comes on when you least expect it and its horrible. addvice from me is have kids when your young befor your 30
as iv got teens and not coping well with meno and there attitudes.
i had a few kids early 20s got through there teens great but the couple i have now i had after 30. id have kids when you g and then make the most of your late 30s on not the oposite.

Actually the best advice is to not have kids at all if you want to be happy and have money and health.

Is that you Jesus?

your right i agree better to have kids young. you have more time later for yourself. and my experience is if you dont youl regret it as you wont have the energy for em. the only down side is ewrly 20s still want to party alot of em and leave kids to do it. depends on the person.

same here. I was happiest in my 30's. Had my kids at 22 and 23 so in my 30's the family was settled in and financially comfortable enough to take the kids on adventures. We even took both kids (when they were teens) and 6 of their friends from fl to NYC for 10 days. Great times.

Your parents should have taken your advice.

Yes, I have a girl in my family that basically left the kids at her moms to go party through her 20's and now she's realizing how badly she screwed up and wants a relationship with them. I always promised myself that I'd give my kids the best childhood possible, and if that meant I make personal sacrifices, then I would. People always ask me why my kids are so well behaved. I like to think it's because I've spent every waking moment of their life trying to give them what I never got as a child...attention.

yep your right i agree but i was happy sharei g my money with my kids happy giver.
id hate to have an empty house with no family
plus whos going to help me when im old
i have my health. iv got freinds with no kids look haggard missrable now im looking good still . and happy but i would have been happier if id not had kids in my 30s as id be free now to go were i wanted and only pay for two of use. so your right. thats why its better to have kids young.

I think you are more likely to embrace change as well. The older you get the more reliant you become on your particular job, skill or career and the more set you get in your ways and quality of life.

It gets harder to change your career and each time you change your career or skill to get a job your wages drop due to lack of experience.

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i did the same spent my whole time with them and they are all good well mostly low not perfect. but have respect and are good becouse of how i brought them up.
i must admit thoe i didngo party a few times in my late twenties and i totaly regreted it i still look back on it and hate myself for doing it. it did t even make me happy.

I was happy then, I am happy now! I can't really say if earlier was better or now is better, but I am ever the optimist and perpetually happy.

Back then, I had (much) fewer real responsibilities, but now I have kids, which are an absolute joy, and more better toys.

No health issues to contend with at this age, knocking on wood now, still doing all the things I've always been able to do. Just with more smarts and wisdom.

It's coming. Haa. I was wrinkle free at 33 with 4 kids , now I'm 55 with grandkids and I just keep losing my guitar picks, and my socks don't match. It's coming, enjoy your beauty while you can but start looking at your inner beauty too.

So many variables here to be considered lmao..

I might have been happy in my 20s, just because I didn't have to worry much about anything and didn't give much thought into all the boneheaded decisions I have made back then. In my early 30s now, and look back to reflect against the 20s me as being a POS d-bag that I wish I could travel back in time to slap the shit out of.

I'm happier now in my 30s...not worry free, but happier.

I despise these ridiculous generalized statements they come up with the fill in media blogs based on some survey of 2000 people.

Tell that BS to an abused kid who didn't make it to see 19, much less 20s.

It's also been shown wealthy people are happier, generally. DUH!

I am, too! Retired, divorced. Children are grown, happy, and successful. I do whatever I want. No one tells me how to spend my money. I travel anytime I want...all free flights because I retired from an airline job. My 20's and 30's were tough because my husband was drafted into the military. Moved 10 times for him in 12 years! Easy for him...not for me and the kids. I raised children during that time; he was absent a lot doing his own thing. I'm happy now!

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and what is fuing good in this society ? people would be happier living in fu tribes that's the truth , most people live just to live in mindless survival state of being ,where humanity is heading? it's a fuc joke and idiocracy is coming

Thats bull crap.

makes sense. people make it to their 20s full of ignorance and excited about leaving childhood behind. its all down hill from there.

the old folks are glad to be near death.

Not that far of a reach. Neanderthal brain case averaged about 1500 cm²... "modern" humans? About 1250 cm².

You have no rights to good lives at our expence. You will now go poor and eat dung.

This, and no kids to worry you to death yet.

Last Edited by InTheGLPHood on 10/05/2015 01:17 PM

Piggy ):)

Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone..

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