The older you get, the happier you become

According to the Centers for Disease Control, as quoted by Get Your Body Healthy Website, “New research … suggests that the older you get, the happier you become.”

This finding is, of course, absolutely contrary to all of the brainwashing we have all received about old age being times of gloom and doom, and it is an invigorating departure from that tired old message.

The results are based on a study conducted by the University of Georgia, which compared two sets of interviews with the same subjects, the first when they were ages 59 to 80, the second 14 years later. Here’s how Get Your Body Healthy Website summarizes the findings: “In the earlier set of interviews, the largest percentage [of study participants] chose their 50s as the most satisfying period of their lives.

An additional 18 percent picked their 60s and 70s. The childhood and teen years emerged as the unhappiest times; the 30s produced nearly equal feedback as being the best and worst years. When the same people were surveyed 14 years later, many of the responses remained the same. But 8 percent now said their 80s were their best years.”

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