When people start out on adult life, they are, on average, pretty cheerful. Things go downhill from youth to middle age until they reach a nadir commonly known as the mid-life crisis. So far, so familiar. The surprising part happens after that. Although as people move towards old age they lose things they treasure—vitality, mental sharpness and looks—they also gain what people spend their lives pursuing: happiness……...Could the misery of the middle-aged be the consequence of sharing space with angry adolescents? And older people tend to be richer. Could their relative contentment be the result of their piles of cash?
The answer, it turns out, is no: control for cash, employment status and children, and the U-bend is still there. So the growing happiness that follows middle-aged misery must be the result not of external circumstances but of internal changes.
http://www.economist.com/node/17722567
PS Just landed from Geneva. Good sleep in Geneva as usual (despite waking up at 3.30 am!), no noise. I friend booked a cab the night before and gave the guy the code for the condo. The taxi was inside the condo waiting for me at 4am!. Things work well there although pretty expensive (50 CHF).
In Lisbon we landed with big fog. It's amazing to land a plane with no visibility at all!.
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