Happiness Relates to Whether You Are “Off-Time,” “On-Time,” “Out of Time”

Posted by Transitions Through Life on November 26, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Johnette was happy. Her marriage was good, her son completed college and had his first job. Things were moving along according to plan. Contrast this with her best friend, Donna, whose daughter dropped out of school and eventually died of an overdose. As her friend said, your children should be burying you not the other way around. Another friend of theirs, fought breast cancer for a year.

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Feel Like a Failure? Maybe It’s Just That You’re “Off-Time”

Posted by Transitions Through Life on July 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment

College graduates are moving home, the place they would least like to be. The reason-it’s the economy, stupid! Dylan Suher, a recent college graduate defines his moving home as a failure. “The feeling that the natural order of life-that you become an adult and then you leave home-has been disrupted.” (New York Times, July 17, 2011, SR, p. 7). But college students are not alone.

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