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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I hope this just means I'm late to the party, not that it's all downhill from here...

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[–] [email protected] 163 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

Personally, I don't know ANYONE who experienced the "peak of life satisfaction" at 23.

Most people that age are still confused about what they want to do with their lives and sweating off some leftover hormones from the teen years. It's more chaotic than satisfying, I think.

Edit: also, having a child at 26 sounds like hell.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I feel like there's a bunch of people who feel they peaked (or got preggo) in highschool that brings the average down to a range that is very uncommon. the age (and social economic status) of the population being surveyed also matters a LOT here. Same for all the stats in the picture, You really would need to see a histogram or something for all the categories to really make any conclusions, different life conditions will lead to multimodal distributions.

Or it could be an incel meme that's just completely BS.

That said 23 was a really happy time for me, last year of university, lots of freedom, very few responsibilities, surrounded by like minded individuals, full of confidence and not old enough for any long term problems to really become a problem. IDK if I would call it my most satisfying time, but it was definitely a local maxima.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think that's a problem with using the average age for everything. A bunch of people think their lives peaked in High School and a bunch of other people think it was in their late 20s/early 30s, which averages out to 23. But I suspect almost no one thinks the peak of their life was age 23. Median would be a more appropriate measure here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I wonder how people who don’t have kids affect the average. Assuming they just get dropped?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Depends on the life, I would think.

I was actually gonna say my peak was 23 because 1.5 months later, I'd just gotten my first place with my then-fiance. But that was also after nearly a decade of being completely homeless, so yeah, that can tip the scales a bit. It was a first place, not a nice place, and we didn't always have food and running water. It was more me just not caring much about those things.

And then I remembered how freeing it was to leave after he metamorphosed into a drunk little cheating piece of shit. Very exciting. Had a solid support system for the first time ever. Aceing college despite never having been to high school. Happy cried a few times.

So I'm gonna call it at 28 and it's all downhill from here, but OP needs to remember Life sometimes happens and it isn't a cookie cutter TV sitcom.

I can be well into my 30s with no driver's license because I missed the whole "Loving parents teach me to drive to high school" situation. I was eating out of a garbage can out back behind the Food Lion and sleeping in a park when that was supposed to happen. But I could also just go get one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Funny how we see headlines for shit like this and then other headlines that are like "200% of all men age 30 and younger are single and suicidal." Honestly it's probably all bullshit just live your life

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

IMO There are some people who are generally happy and some people who are miserable and the average ‘happiest’ age isn’t really that predictive. Positive and negative life events play a role, but time going by doesn’t just make you sadder or happier without something else going on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Idk my 23rd bday was rad

[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm closing in on 40 and life satisfaction has been rising consistently over the past couple of years. I think the peak is still ahead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm getting into 40s here, and can report that it just keeps getting better.

Wish I'd quit smoking, drinking, and started working out seriously earlier, but oh well. I'm on it now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It just gets better and better, just keep an eye out on physical health ;-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

52 here and life is pretty damned fine. And the kids are only 8 and 10.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago

Assuming this data isn't just bullshit, any idea what country it represents? It's definitely not where I live.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hear me out, what if we just didn’t repost the 3rd party click bait spam at the bottom of news and other websites as memes?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Don't know where this came from. I didn't make it so I must've seen it on Twitter, Tumblr or Discord.

~~If it is actually just clickbait for some website/app that would make me feel better though~~

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Sorry wasn’t trying to drag you personally. Just see so many memes with some bait head line and then the bottom half is like “everyone loved that” or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago

Maaan get this doomer incel shit outta here

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They were with me in the first half…

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Man I still haven't done the first half and I'm perfectly fine with it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Life’s not a race. Take it at your pace.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I haven't even begun so...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

First kid at 26? Last time I checked the average was like 34.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I'd pull myself up by my bootstraps but I can't afford any

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨~⚠️~

What's so ⚠️ about the first kiss as opposed to sex?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Interesting that average age for marriage and birth of first child is both 26, despite one of those taking 9 months to happen....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It took me a lot longer than 9 months to get married.

Then again we weren't in a rush either :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

No source, so it is all lies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

First kiss at 17, losing virginity at 28, first relationship at 17, peak of life satisfaction 30, marriage at 28, no kids yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Age of Never - Peak of Life Satisfaction