SCHOOLDAYS ARE the happiest days of your life,” goes the saying. At school, I found this thought a bit depressing, as apparently did Jacqueline Kennedy, who commented that if it was true, she was going to hang herself with her skipping rope.
Fortunately she didn’t, of course. But it turns out that me, and Jackie, and no doubt many of you, were right to be suspicious.
According to research, the happiest time of our lives is likely to be post-60, and happiness levels in life are, it seems, like a U-bend (insert your own jokes here). Higher in youth, dipping in middle age, and higher again in old age. Global average age for being least happy is 46, in case
