io can see 33 being a happy time for me

4/3/2012 11:44:42 PM

Growing up was fun most of the time. But I was happy to trade a carefree childhood, for a more self-determined adulthood.

I've still got a good half-decade to go before I hit 33, but I was really good at grad school over the last few years, and now I've got an awesome job that I love. I rolled the dice on quitting a stable job even in a weak economy to take out student loans and go grad school so I could move into the career I wanted (which also pays better), and it worked out.

Plus, being married is pretty cool for someone who wasn't sure that'd ever be an option for me growing up.

I can't say for sure this is the happiest I'd ever be, but I can't imagine on a practical level any different paths I could have taken, or decisions I could have made that would end up with me much happier now.

4/4/2012 12:24:16 AM

21-24 were probably my best years thus far...was in good shape, made good money, lived alone for much of it, had a lot of close friends, was smart enough to stay relatively single and properly enjoyed the fruits thereof. probably my most productive time with regard to music, always playing out of town/seeing new places/meeting new people. looking back, I was pretty damn happy. Then I decided that wasn't enough, settled down with a gf and went back to school to improve myself. I know it was the right decision but at the moment I'm nowhere near as happy as I was then, largely due to the copious amounts of stress and pressure I deal with on a daily basis compounded by an utter lack of free time and money. It's actually looking like 33 will be my next, hopefully even greater, assault on the world...interesting

4/4/2012 12:51:09 AM

i never had a particular rivalry with "the world"

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"Plus, being married is pretty cool for someone who wasn't sure that'd ever be an option for me growing up."

How so?

4/4/2012 1:02:47 AM

i believe ones goal should be to be more happy than the year before until you get old and your health fails. It has been that way for me and i hope it stays like that.

4/4/2012 6:47:42 AM

I've become steadily less happy over time. I imagine by the time I hit 33 I'll want to kill myself or something.

4/4/2012 9:08:03 AM

I am happy now, but I think I will be even happier in a couple years. Guess we shall wait and see

4/4/2012 9:10:45 AM

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"How so?"

Absence of a ring finger.


jk...he's gay

4/4/2012 12:00:30 PM