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View Poll Results: What is the happiest life stage among these?
Summer off before 1st year of college living under parents' roof with no bills 7 31.82%
Marriage and honeymoon (but lots of financial burden and before/after will be working 90/hour weeks 0 0%
First newborn child 7 31.82%
The day you retire age 65/70 and then you better be sure you have a nestegg 6 27.27%
The day you walk your child down the aisle to marry his/her new found love 2 9.09%
Voters: 22. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-21-2014, 12:57 PM
 
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The happiest time in my life was about 6 years ago when I studied abroad in Europe for a semester. I spent pretty much every weekend traveling, and since I was located centrally in Switzerland, there was much to see in every direction of travel. I used Eurail passes and staying at hostels to keep my expenses low. It was fun but kinda stressful at the same time getting up at 6 in the morning and trying to make it back home before 11:59pm the same day (before the Eurail pass expired for the day) from faraway cities like Barcelona, Amsterdam, Munich, or Budapest.
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Old 05-21-2014, 01:02 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Can't choose.

I had an ideal childhood, an insanely fun and productive college time, hate grad school and my current job, but my family and life are otherwise a blast.

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Old 05-21-2014, 01:22 PM
 
Location: Up above the world so high!
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Why would you expect anyone to pick just one of those life events?
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Old 05-21-2014, 02:52 PM
 
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The happiest life stage for me has always been "the present." Life is an amazing journey!
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Old 05-22-2014, 04:25 AM
 
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
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My childhood was my happiest... Very little sexual identity pressure, no bills, very few worries, not being self-conscious, not caring what others thought of me, having lots of friends, and feeling as if I had all the time in the world. *sigh* I wish I could go back in time.
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Old 05-24-2014, 11:02 AM
 
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I always thought it was the year I graduated from college and was looking ahead to life. Your life is so full of possibilities. I ended up becoming a mom young (age 22), I'm 39 now and still look back wistfully at that stage in my life.

2nd happiest was having babies and small children. Teenagers aren't nearly as cute and engaging lol
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Old 05-24-2014, 03:04 PM
 
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The choices are way too narrow, and most are irrelevant to my life. What an odd poll.
^^^ This. I would have been unable to answer the poll even if it had not closed prior to me seeing it. Why did the poll have such a short duration time?
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