>Older people report higher levels of contentment or well-being than teenagers and young adults. Does this confuse anyone? What old person is told by others w

>Older people report higher levels of contentment or well-being than teenagers and young adults. Does this confuse anyone? What old person is told by others when to awake, what to wear, what to say, who to talk to, when to get through the metal detector, how to act in front of the pervasive cameras in every hallway and every room, watched over like a hawk for any infraction, kept away from friends and where every joke is taken out of context in the most negative interpretation possible and used to persecute and judge them, always with the expectation that a criminal and malign intent is at heart? Here's a little experiment. Take any article about adolescents, teenagers, young adults, millenials, etc... and pretend they were saying those things about a race. Or gender. Just replace the age category with one you're not comfortable being bigoted over. See how the claims stack up and how familiar they sound. The young are a persecuted minority group. Who would expect them to be content? Overall I like the article though it was a bit predictable. Taoism by a different name, but yes, it works. In a storm, the stiff branch breaks while the supple, flexible one survives. A stream flows around and through anything placed in its path but can wear away mountains. Each day, you must find enough food to eat and water to drink to stay alive. You need shelter from dangerous weather (depending on your location). Everything else is gravy. Everything.