It turns out they are more content with their lives and are more social. Must be all those red hat parties 🙂 I have found this to be true already, when I hit my 40’s I noticed that I was much happier than I was in my 30’s and I thought I would be getting more depressed as I reached 50 but I’m not. The age thing doesn’t bother me any more, maybe because when I say, “Yech! Look at these wrinkles! I look like a prune.” My daughters reply, “You’re not old mommy and I don’t see any wrinkles!” They’re pretty nice, aren’t they?

It turns out the golden years really are golden. Eye-opening new research finds the happiest Americans are the oldest, and older adults are more socially active than the stereotype of the lonely senior suggests. The two go hand-in-hand: Being social can help keep away the blues.
“The good news is that with age comes happiness,” said study author Yang Yang, a University of Chicago sociologist. “Life gets better in one’s perception as one ages.”
A certain amount of distress in old age is inevitable, including aches and pains and the deaths of loved ones and friends. But older people generally have learned to be more content with what they have than younger adults, Yang said.

When I heard about this study and how older people have learned to be content I thought of this:

Philippians 4:11 Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

And this is from a man who was in prison! It always makes me think of how I should learn to be content especially since I have the freedom to worship Christ and proclaim his name to who all who want to hear (and even those who don’t) and not worry about being thrown into jail.
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