Comments on: Why So Glum? 25 Very Good Reasons

By: Bobbi

Bobbi — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:07:35 +0000

Advertising execs: Stop with the freaking disgusting commercials that make us look like peeing idiots with no game.

By: Audrey

Audrey — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:49:29 +0000

None of the above applies to me (I’m 48). What makes me the unhappiest is that the age bracket below me won’t learn any lessons from us and wind up miserable for the same reasons when it’s their turn to be middle aged. Don’t do it young people!!

By: Lola

Lola — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:13:36 +0000

Although, of course, you’ll find interesting people in all age brackets 😉

By: Lola

Lola — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:12:57 +0000

Yet the most interesting age-group ?

By: Idontgiveaf*

Idontgiveaf* — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:54:12 +0000

I’m happier now than I’ve ever been! I finally got a decent job, have my own home, am married to the man of my dreams, and I’m thinner than I was in my 20s.

No elderly parents to care for and no children draining my finances. Life is good. : )

By: izzy

izzy — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:58:15 +0000

1. Screwed in 2009 by ‘worst job market since 1991’.
2. Also screwed by job market in 1991.

By: Asta

Asta — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:14:20 +0000

26. Gray hair (down under).

Beat that one.

By: Juror_Eight

Juror_Eight — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:39:27 +0000

Man, it’s kind of creepy how this list hits the nail on the head for me.

I found special resonance in #1, #8 (although I was a history major in college, so I had a headstart on that one), #14 (I’m paying that orthodontist bastard a very steady $195/month), #20 (I’ve had two and I *hate* them), and, God help me, #22 (I’m looking at *you*, Fred Wilpon and Omar Minaya!).

Did I mention I turn 54 this friday?

By: Ellen

Ellen — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:31:14 +0000

What makes this the unhappiest age? The sad realization that no potion will return our skin to the satiny textures of our youth — when we absolutely took it for granted.

The rest of those very valid points I can deal with by maintaining denial and magical thinking. Try it. It works.

By: Pamela Redmond Satran

Pamela Redmond Satran — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:12:00 +0000

As more than one person pointed out on the Times site, the 45-64 age group is only a couple happiness points lower than the others, so things aren’t all THAT bad. What was funny to me was how many different reasons for those few points that everyone came up with — I was a lot less happy after reading the piece than I thought I was!