At what age did you feel most unhappy and discontented? (relative, retirees)
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Is it just me or do others think that not only is this thread depressing, but an extremely odd topic to create a thread to discuss? Wouldn't it be more fun and uplifting to create a poll to discuss a time in one's life when one was most happy and content?
Maybe it's because after 4 months of chemotherapy, being on the road to recovery, and presently sailing on a cruise ship on an exotic itinerary in Southeast Asia, I'm very happy at the moment and don't want to think or write about depressing things. But I must admit that I'm curious as to what precipitated the OP's creation of this thread. I can't believe that he or she just woke up and out of the blue decided that he or she wanted to read about the most depressing periods in the lives of other posters.
I said now, but now I am thinking that, that would be my answer if I was asked this at any particular point in time
I can now look back and see that I had some real low points in my life but I don't consider them (now) as 'unhappy". So I figure by next year or so, this time in my life will be thought of as just another bump in the road and not an unhappy time at all.
Is it just me or do others think that not only is this thread depressing, but an extremely odd topic to create a thread to discuss? Wouldn't it be more fun and uplifting to create a poll to discuss a time in one's life when one was most happy and content?
Maybe it's because after 4 months of chemotherapy, being on the road to recovery, and presently sailing on a cruise ship on an exotic itinerary in Southeast Asia, I'm very happy at the moment and don't want to think or write about depressing things. But I must admit that I'm curious as to what precipitated the OP's creation of this thread. I can't believe that he or she just woke up and out of the blue decided that he or she wanted to read about the most depressing periods in the lives of other posters.
Maybe it is my fault since I started a thread about anxiety and general unhappiness a few days ago??
Sorry.
It might have just gotten others to think about this
25-27 was pretty rough. I had just graduated into the Great Recession. Stuck in a call center job for $15/hr and had to drive a hundred miles roundtrip to get that. Professionally, things didn't get better for several years. My best friend since middle school committed suicide when I was 27, and that was also my worst year financially.
I think the above poll contains the unusual number of unhappy posters of young ages in their 20's, 30's, and sometimes 40's who are drawn inordinately to post their unhappiness on City-Data forums.
Is it just me or do others think that not only is this thread depressing, but an extremely odd topic to create a thread to discuss? Wouldn't it be more fun and uplifting to create a poll to discuss a time in one's life when one was most happy and content?
Maybe it's because after 4 months of chemotherapy, being on the road to recovery, and presently sailing on a cruise ship on an exotic itinerary in Southeast Asia, I'm very happy at the moment and don't want to think or write about depressing things. But I must admit that I'm curious as to what precipitated the OP's creation of this thread. I can't believe that he or she just woke up and out of the blue decided that he or she wanted to read about the most depressing periods in the lives of other posters.
Well said, MMoB.
I think once a person goes through trials (such as yours, MMoB), one gets to "see" how good life is and be so grateful to be living it.
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