Lifestyle
3 weeks ago
When people in their seventies look back, the years they describe as the happiest are usually not the ones their younger selves would have predicted, they are often the ordinary middle years that felt forgettable at the time, and the research on subjective wellbeing across the lifespan now supports the pattern
Older adults often remember the thirties and forties more fondly than youth. Large retrospective studies help explain why ordinary years can become the happiest ones.
