Happiness Myths & Singlehood

[mooncancer]

Came by this article on about happiness myths Vox ( http://www.vox.com/2015/6/2/8686191/happiness-myths ) & it made me think about how my own happiness expectations & standards have changed over the past decade

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[botheredone]

So hi. Having updated your LJ three years ago - you're the closest to an active user on my friends list.

I'm now 33 years old and quite single - after two shitty relationships I fairly thoroughly documented in my 20s (and you witnessed). Looking at my single life versus relationship life: if you assigned binary values to the days in those lives... 1, I'm happy; 0, I'm not happy ...I'd say the # of happy days occurred with greater frequency in my single life.

Right now I think the big issue is looking at life like this:

[ < -- childhood -- > ] [ < --------------------- adulthood / youth / prime --------------------- > ] [ OLD AGE