#65

Only the Lib Dems can be happy here

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#66

The further I get from my teens, the better life is.

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#67

you’re one of the people I was thinking of when I was thinking about bad grown up shit happening to you when you’re very young, and how that makes you have to grow up. I think you’re pretty incredible tbh xxx

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#70

Reckon Susan Boyle’s happier now than when she was an 8 year old.

As a result, I’m less content.

#71

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Nice and old?

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#72

This bodes horribly

#73

Yes, I was going to write something very similar but in the form of a Simpson reference

#74

I’m definitely happier now than I was in my 30s. I posted about it here

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#75

I think my twenties were very happy but I was too fucking stupid to realise it. My thirties have been weird and lonely but with some significant highs. Reckon my forties will be the one!

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#76

I hope they are :slight_smile:

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#77

Me too.

#78

Just more at ease with who I am. Less worried what people think of me. Able to control my worst qualities a bit more and more generally easy going.

#79

Here is my happiness curve

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I fully believe you peak when you’re a kid (providing you’re raised in good circumstances) due to sheer ignorance and lack of responsibility. As you age this rapidly decreases, especially when you’re a teen, then when you’re 18 everything is briefly amazing due to being able to do wut u want and not quite being burdened with responsibilit. The happy medium spo

20s are wank and when you’re heading towards your 30s you think life is over. Then at around 31 you realize you understand yoself a lil more and things get better until your body breaks

The curve represents me and no one else

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#82

My happiness has ups and downs but in general happier as I get older, partly because I’m more confident, partly because I’ve dealt with things that make me unhappy and partly because I’ve learnt how to not let the things I can’t control make me unhappy. Not all of these hold true 100% all the time but slowly drifting happier

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#83

Happy until 11 - brutally miserable until 16 (secondary school was not my friend). A bit better at 6th form, but still crippled with lack of confidence and self loathing. Uni was completely life-changing; a chance to start from scratch and dump all the negative stuff. First five years of work was a bit of a comedown (plus 2 thankfully mild bouts of depression), but managed to find new stuff to make me happy by around 30. 5 years later I’m disgustingly contented, apart from the ever creeping dread of what the collapse of civilisation and the ecosystem will mean for my children.

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#84

Happier? No, the happiest moments are when you are young, new experiences. The real highs.

Contented, yes. More so than ever.

Happiness is fleeting, contentment is not.

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#85

Here’s my rough go at a happiness chart.

[Actually swap the scores for 30-35 and 35-40. My memory of my own life is poor.]

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#86

This is a pretty profound point you’re making, but I think we’re in danger of getting bogged down in semantics. I think I’d argue that happiness and contentment are pretty synonymous, whereas what you’re calling happiness I would describe as joy. I’ve been lucky that I’ve had a couple of genuinely joyful moments in the last month, which are indeed a bit rarer as you get older, whereas throughout that period I would describe myself as indistinguishably happy and content.

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#87

I think you’re probably right re: semantics but I think throwing ‘joy’ into the mix probably muddies the waters even more so.

Although ostensibly I think we are in agreement.

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#88

Most definitely, when I was younger I was bullied and very uncomfortable in myself.

I feel a lot more comfortable now and have more confidence. I’m not great but it’s better.

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