But the play's the thing. It's dawn to dark, with the dreams or nigtmares in between. But vacations, times off-stage, don't change anything back home. Real life awaits the grown-up when the tavern closes, the vacation is over, the Christmas tree hauled to recycling and the ornaments packed away. There it is.
Adult life has to be adjusted to.
Adult life makes many people very unhappy. Adjustment Reaction to Adult Life. It meant, very simply in most cases, that this was not a happy person. Again, occasionally having a good time and being happy are not necessarily the same thing. The good feeling we have in contextual happiness is, essentially, a feeling of contentment.