return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month agoWhat's the worst part about getting older that young people don't know about?message-squaremessage-square273linkfedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down10
arrow-up1166arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the worst part about getting older that young people don't know about?return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square273linkfedilink
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 month agoI’ve got good news for you!
minus-squareMonkeMischief@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 month agoThat about seems like the age you start truly internalizing “Lol all these things they told me were important, aren’t. And I don’t care lol.” We have to spend so much time in that state of dissonance, deprogramming ourselves, realizing their best interests are not in ours.
minus-squaremonotremata@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoI mean, redraw this graph as “happiness” vs “year of birth” and it’ll look way less optimistic!
minus-squareDr. Bob@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoSo dementia sets in around 42??!???!
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoI’ve got good news for you!
minus-squarematthurtme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoThank you. This actually does help.
minus-square5too@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month ago…huh. That’s kinda exciting, but I’m curious if that’s still accurate. …then again, I’m also hanging out at the bottom right now :p
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agohttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/national-institute-economic-review/article/happiness-and-ageresolving-the-debate/7E765E7E32A488E1FF5EE735039DD6C0
minus-square5too@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI think I’m mapping the negations of negations correctly - that link says not only is it still current, but seems to be very nearly universal?
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I’ve got good news for you!

That about seems like the age you start truly internalizing “Lol all these things they told me were important, aren’t. And I don’t care lol.”
We have to spend so much time in that state of dissonance, deprogramming ourselves, realizing their best interests are not in ours.
I mean, redraw this graph as “happiness” vs “year of birth” and it’ll look way less optimistic!
So dementia sets in around 42??!???!
I’ve got good news for you!

Thank you. This actually does help.
…huh. That’s kinda exciting, but I’m curious if that’s still accurate.
…then again, I’m also hanging out at the bottom right now :p
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/national-institute-economic-review/article/happiness-and-ageresolving-the-debate/7E765E7E32A488E1FF5EE735039DD6C0
I think I’m mapping the negations of negations correctly - that link says not only is it still current, but seems to be very nearly universal?
Correct
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