at what age does life peak?

17 imo

30, if my life is any indication

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life is a mountain range imo

imo every week should have a depressing digression upon the nature of time and humanity

last week's effort fyi: Ever get the sense that you're being slowly phased out?

this thread is kind of dangerous, jordy

i don't think i want to voice an opinion in answer to the question if that's ok

depends on the life!

17, maybe, if you're a star high school quarterback and have nothing else to look forward to.

17 for me was all about making an ass out of myself constantly and wanting to die.

So far every year of my 20s has been getting progressively better.

Oh God, 17 was so not the answer for me.

xposts! Yes, so far, every year since 18 has been an improvement on the last.

For me: 20

I have hope that with the right career, I could change that, but I'm not holding my breath

fwiw i expect my final answer to be either like 27 or 28 or like 35/36, depending on things

imo ~*~*life is like a roller coaster*~*~

you hit 17 and you've peaked and then it dips a little and you get back to the same point at 21 and then you drop for real

the happiest year of my life so far was 22/23 (i'm 28 now) but i'm pretty sure it's gonna get better again in the future

68

thank you

25 might be dope, we'll see

and different things peak at different times -- different aspects of your life

no i would just like to say that 25 sucked

if i die or am sb'd tomorrow, answer is like 21

also j0rdan s you are exercising the wisdom of the youthful there lol

btw, i was just listening to country today and it really does matter

if i was getting madoff money i'd say like 55 but i don't think that's gonna happen

14/19-21/25/31-?

being 5 was the shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

but really hoos wins this thread

life begins at 51

Idk but I sort of feel like I'm at my peak right now in a lot of ways. I know myself better than I ever have before, I've done some awesome shit but I know that I'm going to do a lot more awesome shit and yeah . . . I think 31 is pretty good.

im hoping for 53 or 62

17 was probably about the worst point in my life thus far

i mean i feel like i've had peaks at 18 and 22 so far and i know i've got enough challenges and new shit ahead in my life that they definitely won't be the last peaks i have. i'm a young dude.

shit gets better every year imo

I like early 30's cause you're an adult and have all the perks that come with that but still look good and feel pretty young.

peak measured how? happiness? lack of disaster?

life is a vale of tears.

thanks dr silenus

you have to make the most of it no matter where u at

ilx is def the place to turn to for the discussion of deep thoughts imo

how long before life in the universe is gone forever

1. how long before life in the universe is gone forever
2. at what age does life peak?
3. mixtape for after you get hardsonned

even dr. freud is hardsonned

every year is getting better

each year's better than the next imo

Life is still good when you can drink four gin and tonics and not get a hangover the next morning.

The idea of life 'peaking' is, in a way, depressing to me. OTOH if it does, I hope it hasn't already happened.

I'm 25 now but will I live to be 24 the way things are going I don't know

The idea of life 'peaking' is, in a way, depressing to me.

the strong suspicion that it already has is considerably more depressing

A suspicion that must be denounced/ignored! Don't worry esoj we both might conclude someday there's an identifiable reason to stay with it. In the meantime

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Have I taken a bite out of the sun?
Have I drank the entire ocean?
Have I been given the Key to a City?
Once a day a life my life could peak?

My version of "IF" is turning out kind of lousy.

The idea of life 'peaking' is, in a way, depressing to me. OTOH if it does, I hope it hasn't already happened.

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yes^

i would have said 17 when i was 17, or maybe a few months ago, but shit has been going my way recently and i'm pretty optimistic about my 20s. i'll be 20 in 2 1/2 weeks

23 was my peak, doubt it'll get better

I like early 30's cause you're an adult and have all the perks that come with that but still look good and feel pretty young.

^^^truth bomb

plus you're still young enough to laugh at older people's mid-life crises!

30 has been absolutely rocking so far.

yeah, early 30s is a good period
17 is an absolutely terrible answer btw

Yes, so far, every year since 18 has been an improvement on the last.

24 may have been worse than 23, actually.

life begins at 51

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 01:54 (8 hours ago)

yeah! likin it so far

also: i had this poster on my bedroom wall age 12-15.

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20s are overrated, not the easiest time for me. I don't think my life has peaked yet.

BTW that age period (12-15) is the anti-peak of life. not in my exp so much, i can't remember, but my kid is miserable. middle school = hell on earth.

This number is entirely based on the success of my cryogenic freeze. TBD.

Shit sure keeps getting better and more interesting though. And I turn 36 this month.

how come all the people I went to school with that are on my facebook started looking really old and fat as soon as they were in their mid 20s, but me and all my friends are still beautiful?

I have a mild hangover from drinking a 600ml bottle of beer at 9pm last night and not drinking any water afterwards :/

The twenties suck. No one cares what you think about anything.

15-18 months rocked.

The golden age= kids grown up, parents not incontinent yet.

0-12 - this is really the golden age guys, being a kid rules. u play outside and ride bikes and eat pizza all the time and everyone is nice to you.

13-18 - SUCKS. junior high / high school is the fucking worst. seriously i never understand people who look back at high school like it was the peak of their life. no one takes u seriously, u have acne and don't know how to dress. there's bullshit social hierarchies and not really until the end do u rarely have the self-confidence to actually enjoy the best parts of being a teenager. unless u have the right connections or a lol fake ID it's hard to get alcohol outside your parents' liquor cabinet. that i have a lot of good memories from high school and a lot of my closest friends are from this time. i would never want to go back tho.

18-22 - this can be pretty cool - lolcollege etc. u have so many of the privileges of being an adult but basically zero responsibilities. so much free time and money to have fun. u can stay up late getting stoned/drunk listening to music, playing cards, talking about bullshit philosophy w/ friends. u kind of have that neat feeling of totally being able to decide what kind of person u want to be. also lots of parties.

22-30 - where i am at now (i'm 26) - so far the best. every year just gets better. u know more and more about yourself and feel more comfortable in the world. u can weed out all the bad friends and get closer to your better friends. u can do cool things like get married and start grad school and your career. u have time for hobbies like brewing beer and cooking and hiking and traveling and record collecting. you're in good physical shape.

30-40 - dunno, seems pretty cool? start having kids and making jokes about 'becoming an old man' even tho ur still pretty young and fit.

40s - $$$ career peak?? i guess, that's what everyone says right? that's pretty cool i guess. also parenting and all that. probably this is a harder transition period - ur between being young and being old and it's kind of a weird limbo.

50s & 60s - from what i observe this could def. be the peak - kids are grown up and u have a lot of seniority/expertise in a job. w/ kids gone u have more time for hobbies than anytime since your 20s, w/ a lot more money to do so?

70s & 80s - not so cool i guess. grandkids would be awesome but also u have more health problems - even if nothing serious u still can't do physically what u used to be able to do

Oh good, peak is just around the corner.

impossible to answer this question.
very subjective, and also - sometimes there are several picks, each one for different reason

^ this, basically

surprised this isn't a poll.

Well, who would vote for "20 years older than you are now" ?

mid 20s for me so far

but i'm only a third done if i can help it

being a kid was the best for me. Had a completely nice and untraumatic childhood though, which definitely helps. My friends with wife-beating dads, divorced parents, siblings who died etc. probably wouldn't have the same answer. Running around everywhere, playing football every day if the weather was good, Nintendo and Super Nintendo, discovering loads of different new things (e.g. I fucking hate flying and am ultra-scared of it, but when I went to Chile on a plane when I was 8 it was an awesome adventure). Also I was in a cool bubble of not really understanding the serious shit that goes on in life until I was 10 years old and saw a teenager die by crashing into a tree on a moped.

some would say there are 2 picks: the day you were born and the day you will die.

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last night i had a girl say to me "i can't imagine being 28" :/

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All the retirees at the UU church seem to have it PRETTY FUCKING GODDAMN SWEET. Like if I could be a part-time prof of my favorite thing, just for fun bcz I already have enough time/$$$ to do go to eastern Europe & do art restoration and drive a golf cart around my property while drunk, that wld be pretty sweet.

I'm thinking my 50s are going to be pretty awesome because I will be old enough to pull the "I'm old enough to be as completely kooky as I want, kid" card, although I have enjoyed my 20s and my 30s immensely as well (some ups and downs, natch, but for the most part I am pretty content).

obv parts of every year are rad and parts of every year carve little pieces out of your soul but post-college like 21-24 have been majority awesome - basically best parts of college + money and time to do shit and a better sense of who u r as a person and like emotionz and how 2 relate 2 them

so far this is totally not true for me

give it time, bro

lol i only have 18 more months

today is the first day of the next 18 months

basically i need to quit this fukkin job

& then

ROAD TRIP

u and me velko

& the open road

I don't particularly believe that there's a peak as such, but things have been getting better since 22. Basically the main feature is that the frequency of me saying/doing stupid regrettable embarrassing shit has gone from ~once an hour at age 18, to daily, and then to weekly.

sometimes i see these pimp old men who just chill at coffee joints drinking coffee and reading books and chatting everyone up, and they're all wearing jaunty caps and occasionally have a dope old man bike and it seems to be a pretty good way to live at that age. though i would not live that way in los angeles, i think past a certain age being around here would be depressing as hell.

me max & some chick we picked up
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whichever decade I get to die in is the one I like best

i will hold your frozen head in my hands

lol i only have 18 more months

didnt u just graduate???? transition period imo. or maybe u just had a better time in college than i did? lol

yah i just graduated but i was old 4 my class since i took a year off--imo i havent had a real winner of a year since probably 2005--once our production co takes off its all gonna be gravy i figure

i skipped a year in grade school so for me 17-21 was college extrapolate from there i guess

yah and heres to a lyfetime of hollywood success and excess

max if you had stayed in la you'd be running a movie studio by now

damm dude are u just some kind of gay canadian genius or what

thinkin about moving back homie

Life peaks at the point of maximum oblivion. If you believe anything else, you are successfully deluding yourself, which is a good sign.

27.

sometimes i see these pimp old men who just chill at coffee joints drinking coffee and reading books and chatting everyone up, and they're all wearing jaunty caps and occasionally have a dope old man bike and it seems to be a pretty good way to live at that age. though i would not live that way in los angeles, i think past a certain age being around here would be depressing as hell.

Ha, this basically describes the action in my neighborhood, Astoria. But why is it always old men who age so well and get to enjoy their lives? The woman are in housedresses and carting groceries from the supermarket.