>>21261032>Every person I've ever met over 50 with no children are miserable.Every person I've met over 50 even with children was miserable. You can see in their eyes that they are, put it simply, bored out of their minds. Their kids have their own lives now, they're reaching retirement age, they have nothing to do anymore other than watch news, talk politics and stay alive. I can see they are starved for human contact and conversations whenever I visit them, but I can't be their friend, there's too big of an age difference and I got my own life too. They failed to hold unto friends as they went through life, and they found no purpose or hobby besides raising their children and working their job, so once you took those away all you're left with is empty husks.
So my theory for how to be happy is:
1. find some good company
or
2. find a purpose that doesn't rely on other people (arts, crafts, science, sports, autistic hobbies)
or
3. just find something to keep you busy until you accidentally die one day.
(I think older people are supposed to find purpose in helping raise grandchildren, but that doesn't happen much nowadays for some reason?)
