For decades, it’s been socially accepted that midlife really is the worst. Researchers have agreed on the pattern that people are generally happy at the start of adulthood, unhappiness then starts to creep in during the thirties and forties, until eventually you reach peak misery in your fifties. More than 600 published papers appeared to confirm this “unhappiness hump.”
But now, that’s all changed. For the first time in generations, 22-year-olds are more miserable than their parents, according to a study published in the journal PLOS One .
The only people not surprised by this “revelation” are people in their twenties , like me.
When I call my Dad, who turned 45 a few days ago, he’s always loving life. It’s definitely not what peak gloom sounds like. He goes to work, at a compa