In what decade were you the most happy and content... - Page 3

blackhole99 · ‎08-22-2013

The 70's because I was newly married and the 80's because we were raising our son. Boy did that time go fast.

QVCkitty1 · ‎05-23-2015

I'm content with this decade, but happy, it would have to be the 70's , I had fun.

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan

SaRina · ‎04-17-2015

@gmkb, @proudlyfromNJ - In retrospect, I'm sure I would've been happier in a smaller college closer to home.

ALRATIBA · ‎07-15-2016

Always the current decade. Life keeps getting better and better. I can't recall ever being unhappy or discontented.

LilacTree · ‎03-25-2012

@ALRATIBA wrote:
Always the current decade. Life keeps getting better and better. I can't recall ever being unhappy or discontented.

@ALRATIBA

Wow. You are one lucky lady!!

Formerly Ford1224
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel 1986

Irshgrl31201 · ‎03-18-2010

is hard to pick one. I have been happy in every decade. Maybe not every single day or every single week but happy the majority or each year and each decade. I do miss having my dad and my gram around, they both died in the 90s.

I would say my happiest decade is this one and if you asked me each decade I would probably say that decade though. I have had a good decade so far. I have no complaints. As long as my family is happy and healthy, that is what makes up the majority of my happiness.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
JFK

Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

For me, the mid 70s through the mid 80s. I was on my own, had a profession that at the time was highly valued and well paid and my standard of living was good. I was respected, liked and had the buying power to have a discretionary income that let me play a little with friends. The economy was good for me and people were generally more content in their jobs because they could count on certain benefits - or fairly easily find another job.

Life without Mexican food is no life at all

LilacTree · ‎03-25-2012

@golding76 wrote:
Lilac Tree, I understand your reason for not citing your "baby years" because of the bad marriage. My first marriage was horrific (he was cruel and violent). I am your age, I think, but had children late in life. I still pat myself on the back for knowing -- even in the 1960s when divorce was still rare and abuse was not really spoken of -- to get out of a dangerous relationship.

It is odd, I just saw the end of "The View" today, with singer Jackie Evancho singing "Caruso." Oh, how I love the passion and longing in that song! Anyway, the composer wrote the song about Caruso (natch!) and his (Caruso's) visit to Sorrento near the end of his life. The hotel where he stayed was, I think, where I stayed on part of my ill-fated honeymoon in my ill-fated marriage. First, all I could think of was what spoiled brats my groom and I were. Really, look at the rooftop restaurant where we sat and could hardly look each other in the eye. By this point I knew I had made a mistake.

@golding76
I knew on my honeymoon too. But, of course, I thought there was something wrong with ME. I was never so unhappy in my young life. How I managed to have four babies will always be a mystery to me. But I will never regret having them, they were meant to be.

Formerly Ford1224
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel 1986