If all I knew about life was based on that graph, then I would say that life is great in your 20s, then it goes downhill for 30 years, and then it gets better.
At least if iNat Forum participation is a proxy for quality of life.
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Defining quality of life by how much leisure time you spend online?
Digital natives win then.
Can we assume that you meant 8 March 2025? (date formats can be hard to interpret in different parts of the world when both day and month are single digits…)
2025 Mar 8. Chinese style. Big to small
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oh hell, no :(
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Earning a living. Raising kids. Or sandwich generation also caring for the (grand) parents.
Not downhill, but busy with RL. Adulting after child and student.
Then Third Age - retirement and back to some me time.
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This poll kind of reinforces the notion that I am sure that everyone on this forum knows: iNaturalist can be enjoyed by any age, at any time. Nature-watching is a timeless activity! I am always pleasantly surprised to see, time and time again, just how diverse this community is!
I’m thinking that this is possibly off-topic but I just wanted to add this note:
Considering that I am on the younger side of the 13-19 range, it is quite humbling to read about some of the things that people have posted on this thread that happened decades before I was even born (such as a world without internet or smartphones! Not many people born in today’s world that have access to that technology can imagine a world without those technologies!)
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No telephones of any kind and no electricity. It is possible to survive.
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People wrote letters … and … waited … for a reply.
But my mother in London said - you could post an invitation to tea in the morning, and your guests would come that afternoon. Now that seems hard to imagine. Post twice a day!!
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Our mail took about two to three months.
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Welp, at least you get stamps (as a stamp collector, I had to say this)!
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Can be true. Life is a lot better now (mid-70’s). Better than in my 20’s, for sure, though there were a lot of good things about my 20’s, too.
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My back and knees were better in my 20s, I’ll say that.
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Well, yes. I feel like my life is finally going well, and my body is falling apart. Sigh.
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I forgot how the expression goes, but it essentially boils down to something like –
20s: (o) Health/Energy (o) Time (x) Money.
40s: (o) Health/Energy (x) Time (o) Money
60s: (x) Health/Energy (o) Time (o) Money
(Obviously there’s a great deal of variety in individual circumstances …)
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s mournful plaint: “If youth only knew and age only could.”
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Right there with you!
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