Study: People Are Happiest In Their 20s

Ruthie58
Thu, 05 Nov 2015 05:20:27 +0000

I think my own kids, almost 22 and 26, have some significant struggles, though they’re doing ok and probably neither would call herself unhappy. I don’t see either really having the fun and games and freedom experience often associated with single people their ages (and they both seem, for now, intractably single which is an issue for them). A lot of their friends/peers - though not all, of course - seem anxious and ungrounded. I think my own twenties (also in a bad economy) were mostly very happy - I got to travel, work in another country, stumble into an occupation I like, survive grad school with a very close band of fellow-sufferers, make some great friends, meet my future spouse. I was also a bit wilder than my kids, though careful to stay out of actual trouble, and lucky to have an innately optimistic temperament. I deeply hope my kids have happier times to come. As someone said above, I want them “feeling settled and launched”.