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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 6 years ago

at what age?

at what age can a man stop trying to make everyone else's lives happy and learn to make his own life happy with meaning and purpose?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago
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    This sounds as if the time and age has come. And it is here and now. You see the world impresses upon us its impressions of all sorts, i.e. of us in it 'being good and wise'. The world sometimes manages to convince us quite effectively how bad it would be to hurt other people, or to make them feel unhappy, and, how stupid it would be to have others around us in disagreement or thinking bad about us.

    But the time it seems has now come to change all that, to put thing right, to bring ourselves back into the equation. You see if you keep ignoring yourself you really end up being pathetic, and hypocritical, trying in vain to make others around you pleased and happy. I suggest you think of yourself first, be kind and decent here first, and then reach out to other people, to do the same. This way no one in the world would feel being left out.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    I would say that there is not an obligatory age when this should take place rather it is the period of a man's life when he has gained knowledge and perspective to know his life's calling. Once he has found his direction he should pursue it with passion. This may actually mark the passage from boyhood into maturity and emotional adulthood.

  • 6 years ago

    Now. Whatever age he's at. And to attempt to do so without harm to anyone else. That's not the same as pleasing them. The difference is crucial to understand in his quest to live a happy and fulfilling life.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    6 years ago

    Any age.

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  • 6 years ago

    Modern psychologists treat the period from 35 to 40

    years as middle-age crisis period. Most of the people

    may not feel much during this period. However for those

    few persons who experience its full intensity, it will

    be like a mini-death. In English, 'flourit' means the

    age of dawning of wisdom; it also means the age of 40.

    (See a multi-volume dictionary in a library). Energy in

    the body will be at its highest during the youth period

    from 25 to 40 years of age. Generally, Buddhi

    (intellect) starts functioning after the age of 40

    years, but it may take longer for others. You can not

    blame a teenager or a youth for not having it. It is a

    general observation that only person aged beyond 40

    years are called intellectuals.

    http://creationwiki.org/Property:Flourit

    https://www.wordnik.com/words/flourit

    http://www.abbreviations.com/abbreviation/flourit+...

    The period from 40 to 60 years is called the

    declining period of youth-hood. It is also the period

    of gaining wisdom.

    LIFE BEGINS AT 40 -- "Middle age marks the start of a welcome new stage

    of life. Maturity is the best time of life. Generally attributed to

    American writer W. B. Pitkin (1878-1953).

    Researchers from Great Britain and the U.S. analyzed data of more than two million people and spanning 35 years. They analyzed them for

    depression, anxiety, happiness and life satisfaction.

    They found a U-shaped curve in which people reported being happiest in their 20s and in their 50s and older, but that both men and women were more

    likely to be depressed and were generally less happy in their 40s.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/82047...

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-133...

    History knows that major inventions or

    innovations in science were made by people

    after the age of 24, and major achievement in

    philosophy, history or literature after the

    age of 40.

  • 6 years ago

    It's best you start doing that when your like 16 but naturally you will start to do that either before or after college.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    Any time any man any where can act in a manner which will make some ones life happy he should do it the only time he is not obliged to is when he is dead

  • 6 years ago

    Usually you begin life all vain and selfish and greedy, and as we gain experience and Perspective (if) in life, we mature past it and learn to Love!.

  • Char
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    Do it right now. Your family can't be happy until you take better care of yourself.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    When he can survive on his own. As long as a man relies on others, they have influence on his decisions.

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