I was 47 in 2005. Was not miserable then. I've never been miserable.
Contrary to what many of you might think.
And the reason would be???
I started being miserable in 2008, when Obama became president. I was 52.
Wow. 47 was my worst year ever. 50 may be good or bad. I’ll check back in after my surgery in a few weeks.
The longest misery was 2008 to 2016.
The cited age was 47.2 years. I can verify this to be true, at least for me, and nearly to the day of being 47.2 years old. That was quite a while ago now, multiple years. I am no longer ‘miserable’ in the form I was then, but I’m not sure ‘content’ would be accurate for now either.
It’s a long road back when you get to that place where you are ‘miserable.’ It’s not a pleasant journey, even when things are steadily improving. If you’ve never been to that dark place, don’t just flippantly tell a miserable person to ‘be happy’. It doesn’t work that way. Even when there are many things to be happy about. There are demons to fight; and they can overwhelm you.
It’s an individual journey to purposely make the choice to find the good in situations, people, and most of all, yourself, to live a more satisfying life.
Maybe many people experience the grief of parental death around 47? I know it made the last year very depressing for me, working through the grief.
I was exactly 47.2 when I got married. How did they know? :)
I don’t think that I’ve EVER been ‘miserable.’ Sad, due to circumstances, as when someone has died, but you can CHANGE just about any OTHER circumstance you might find yourself in.
If you are an American by birth, you’ve got NOTHING to be miserable about. Yeesh!
I was miserable at 47 because we had a Democrat president and an incompetent head football coach at the University of Southern California.
check out the life journey of rick allen... the drummer for def leppard...
A lot of Democrats seem to be perpetually miserable. They’re always whining and complaining about something. Nothing is ever good enough for them.
I reached my peak of miserablenes at around 19 and gotten better and better ever since. 47 is a cakewalk compared to 19.
I most assuredly have not reached peak miserability yet, although I’m hoping to soon.
I think it was Howard Roarke who said, or maybe it was out of Altlas Shrugged hence Cagney or Reardon or Galt ... "I suffer, but the suffering only goes so deep."
Now, if you're a journalist ... such a study makes sense. Since they are lefty and therefore miserable in general, as a way of life, then one might see a life long arc. For example, people who are bipolar tend to see a leveling off in their 30's. So in the sense that liberalism is a lifelong disorder - and certainly one could view it as a projection and externalization of an internal psycho/biochemical/moral/character state , it doesn't surprise me if they experience an arc over their entire lifetimes which is measurable even when divorced from direct life circumstances.
If we were to assume that normals experience of happy/sad is spread evenly across their lives, then we could do a thought experiment and probably assume that lefy misery is greater than what the study measured since it was diluted by the experience of the normals, likely the actual lefty misery measures are in fact about 33% greater than reported, and the study would have reflected a relatively more depressed version of mankind.
Hmmmm the more I think about that, the more that makes sense.
Good thinking Tiny!
Why thank you, Mr. Owl!
I was miserable the years when Muschamp and Shark Humper were coaching at UF.
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Hmmm...
1. Your kids now have raging hormones at ages 11 - 14.
2. Wife decided she was done with “relations” because she delivered all the kids she was going to deliver.
3. Your back is shot and your golf score went to crap.
I turned 47 in 2008. There are no coincidences.
47 is just on the cusp of mid-life crisis for men and menopause for women...generally speaking. As far as misery goes, there is plenty available at just about any age but fasten your seat belts for 60’s on up health-wise. Bod is like a car with 200,000 miles on it...and counting!
How old is Prince Harry. This guy is such a nut he posted a clip on Instagram with music from a famous Anti Monarch group who wrote a song about offing his Granny