LIFE STARTS OVER AT THE AGE OF 56

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Obviously, the title is not to be taken literally (and the age number is intentionally random), so do you want to know what exactly starts over at the age of 55? Well, it’s our finding happiness!

In the last decades, much has changed about the geezerhood or, as we call it in Greek, the third age. The decline of extended warfare around the world along with the miraculous advancements in medical technology has largely increased people’s life expectancy.

At some point in their late forties to early fifties, many people go through a widely known phase called ‘middle-life crisis’. However, despite the fact that as people march towards the old age they lose many appreciable things, such as liveliness, agility, good looks, and physical flexibility, once that ‘crisis’ is over, they are in a position to find what they spent a lifetime searching for: happiness. After all, what is life? A give-and-take, a lose-and-find.

For years, specialists have been focusing their efforts on detecting what it is that makes us happy. Of course, there is no one thing and the answer can vary as every person is different. In any case, four factors that play a critical role in DEFINING happiness for each individual are our sex, our age, our character, and external conditions. And four factors that play a significant role in MEASURING happiness are our health status, our social relations, our financial status, and our education. According to statistics, women are slightly happier than men, though more prone to depression. Also, extroverted people are generally happier than the introverted ones.

Lastly, a series of recent studies concluded that people’s psychological prosperity can be depicted in a U-shaped algebraic curve. You see, people in their 20’s are alive and kicking and feel high and mighty; then, they don’t feel young anymore which is a difficult thing to come to terms with, but a little later, they have finally dealt with it and decided to move on as they still have years of life to live.

And what’s more, those years can be happier ones by making use of their wisdom and lived experiences, can’t they?

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