As we age, we have many opportunities to discover what it is we have to do to enjoy personal happiness. The most important thing about happiness, is learning to make the choice to be happy, and that may take one quick decision, or require years of practice. It may be helpful to have some freedom to think about it, therefore as the responsibilities of family and career diminish, there is more opportunity to explore ways to make choices that allow for the experience of feeling happy.

There is no doubt we get happier as we get older. Of course, there are mitigating features in the life of each person that affect how they handle choices. Most of us will recognize we become more free to feel happy as time goes on. 

The days of studying for exams, competing with peers for every gain, catering to the needs of a growing family, or sustaining various jobs, is history. The one thread of urgency that continues to require thought, and commitment is in regards to matters of health. Assuming reasonable health, getting older allows for a natural flow of feeling happier in general. In other words, as we age, we simply have more time to engage in lifestyle choices that nurture our feelings of being happy

Depending upon your age, the stage of your studies, or career, and for a good part of our lives, awakening daydreams soon expand into a full blown agenda, and you have to get organized. This kind of lifestyle anxiety happens less, and less, as one ages toward retirement. It may not be an automatic adjustment for everyone at the same age, but there are various events that lead up to, and enhance, our freedom to feel happy more often as time goes on.

When we are children, the social circumstances are imbued with great freedom to be happy. Are children carefree, and happy? They are not preoccupied with being happy, however, they are largely carefree, and that is certainly one aspect of feeling happy. However, their lives are largely controlled by fixed choices, and frequently stressed out adults, and being happy is literally relative to those around them.

We struggle to grow up, and pass through stages where we have to test comparative happiness. One moment we have a happy moment, only to discover someone else doesn’t favor it, and we flutter away like a hungry butterfly to find another, nearby, blossom of happy. It’s a long journey to make, yet we manage to get through it, learning what what really makes us happy. Later on, we experience more time to be happy when we have fewer responsibilities, as well as more opportunity to do what we like. 

The experience of feeling happy is dependent upon good health, socializing with other happy people, as well as a sense of being grateful for the choices that offer the opportunity to feel happy.

From the outset, to experience being happy is part of being human. However, as we get older, we have more time to view each day as a day to explore doing things that allow happiness to flow. As we get older, we have a natural inclination to feel happier.

Aging implies the accumulation of  years, life experiences, and an exquisite understanding of how precious it is to feel happy. But the main reason we get happier as we get older, is because we have learned it is our choice to make.