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If you’re in your 36th year of life, try to savor every minute of it. Because, there’s a chance you’ll never be any happier.
PATERNITY WARD D. L. Stewart
The Happiest Year Of Life
At least that’s a conclusion that could be drawn from a recent survey asking 2,000 Americans: “If you could be one age for the rest of your life, what would it be?”
shaky grasp on reality.
Still, the question gives rise to all sorts of other questions about the values of our lives. Was our happiest year some- where back in childhood, when life was mostly play
my life was the one in which I married you, sweetheart.”
That study cited a 36-year- old identified as “Mark,” who explained, “Things feel more in place. I’ ve put together a machine that’s finally got all the parts it needs.”
In the same survey, more than half said they thought they looked an average of five years younger than their true age, indicating a shaky grasp on reality.
from our last paying job? For a married person, it’s an easy question because there’s only one correct an- swer: “The happiest year of
I’d like to think that one is ahead of me.
develop careers and relation- ships, people reported feeling as though they had finally ar- rived.”
The results came as a sur- prise to researchers, who expected most people to say their year of choice would be somewhere in the 20s, before the wrinkles of reality had be- gun to intrude upon their lives.
with few responsibilities?
In our 20s, when we got
But for the respondents who narrowed it down to the age of 36, their reasons seemed to be a matter of ex- pectations and realizations. As a developmental psychol- ogist who participated in a separate study related:
I don’t know what kind of parts Mark has or where he got them. All I know is that at 36, my machine consisted of a modest paycheck, a wife, four kids, a dog and most of my parts were scattered all over a house that had an enor- mous mortgage.
But 40% said they would reset their eternal clock to the age of 36.
our first paying job?
In the child-raising (or
“When we took an even closer look at our data, it start- ed to become clear why peo- ple might wish to remain age 36 over any other age. People talked about being in the prime of their lives and feeling at their peak. After years of working to
Today, as a remarried per- son, there’s no question what the happiest year of my life was, so every other year is merely in the running for second happiest.
There’s room for some skepticism. In the same sur- vey, more than half said they thought they looked an aver- age of five years younger than their true age, indicating a
child-avoiding) 30s and 40s? In our 60s, when we retired
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