This year The Guardian published an article called, “Could your 60s and 70s be the best decades of life?” and it’s all about the quality of life after you turn 60. It poses the question, are the decades after your 60s the best?
Are the Decades After Your 60s the Best
Retiring can provide a lot of extra time. Not only because you are no longer working, but your children are grown up and with families of their own. This allows someone to follow their passions that they couldn’t do before, anything from volunteering to exercise to arts and crafts.
Research shows that people of retirement age tend to be happier than their younger counterparts. Also, all the “superagers” consider themselves lifelong students, so they always find something to make them feel fulfilled. Basically, aging is what you make of it, and if you make it enjoyable, you will be happy and feel good. Some 90-year-olds claim to still feel young and “normal.”
Of course, there is another perk of getting older, more self-confidence. It’s been a long known joke that the elderly don’t have to play by the same rules because they don’t care. We hear our loved ones say something sassy and we’ll sigh and say I can’t wait to be able to say that without caring. Years add up to experience, and from that experience comes a feeling of being self-assured.
You can read the whole article here.