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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am visiting my beautiful hometown, one of the most desirable places to live according to many studies and reviews. Yet my friends are all unhappy. We’re in our mid 40s and many look back on decisions they made in their 20s and they’re so unhappy. They don’t like their husbands, they don’t like their careers. They’re overwhelmed with kids and other responsibilities. I don’t understand it because it’s objectively beautiful, close to everything, social network and pensions, they have extraordinarily stable jobs (ie, doctors that never get fired or lawyers who work for the government). What’s going on? I love these people and I am sad to see that they’re so unhappy. Disclosure: I thought I was unhappy, but my friends beat me in every category of sadness.[/quote]

Very interesting post & observations. Without knowing more, I can only guess at some reasons.

Mid-life crisis, too much time to think & reflect, could be an interaction of several factors such as age, cold weather location, increased independence of children, physical changes, etc.

Maybe this is one reason we stress so much about our kids and their education as we want our children to avoid mistakes that we--in retrospect--believe that we made.

A solution may be to never stop growing and never stop caring for others. Gives real meaning to one's existence.[/quote]

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