I just sent this email to my sis and best-est friends. One way to look on the bright side and cheer up my pals:
Ladies :
Did you see this on the news? ... Science research update-for-the-day: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22896014/
" Middle age is miserable for many, according to a study using data from 80 countries showing that depression is most common among men and women in their 40s" "It looks from the data like something happens deep inside humans. For the average person in the modern world, the dip in mental health and happiness comes on slowly, not suddenly in a single year. Only in their 50s do most people emerge from the low period. But encouragingly, by the time you are 70, if you are still physically fit then on average you are as happy and mentally healthy as a 20 year old. Perhaps realizing that such feelings are completely normal in midlife might even help individuals survive this phase better."
also, http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/researchers_find_that/
" In the US they found a significant difference between men and women with unhappiness reaching a peak at around 40 years of age for women and 50 years of age for men"
- hey we should be on the Upswing by now!!!
Come next May, instead of crying about being another year (or 4-6 months!) older than most of you, I'll be really and truly much happier that I'm that much closer to climbing out of my "middle-age" funk. By the time we're 70 we should be as happy as we were when we were 20-yr-olds! Woo Hoo!
Even better- by comparison we can look forward to NOT driving around in pea-green Pinto-hatchback-death-mobiles (Trish!) or barf-brown Volare station wagons (mine- aargh!) from the 1970's ;~) Hey as long as we're not in wheel-chairs everything should be A-OK peachy keen by then. Hopefully! (Then our kids can be depressed for us.... aahh the circle of life.)
Let's not wait until we're 70 to have some fun though...
L.B.
Here's a pic I found online that's similar
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