Pleasure in life|Happiness in life

Happiness in life

Pleasure in life and those of us who are not fortunate enough

To have partners to succors us with loving embraces

Must make doubly sure to be surrounded by good friends and sensual pleasures.

If you answer mostly a’s and b’s to our highly pleasurable questions opposites, you’re pretty hopeless in the pleasure stakes.

Give yourself one point for each c answer only, and c how you did. Hope it’s been a bit thought provoking.

Compiling silly quizzes is one of our small pleasures!

Pleasure in life and Certainly the sense of humor

Is one of the first things that disappears from depressed people.

And is a precious commodity to cultivate.

It will not desert you with age like your looks eventually will, and may be a truly saving grace.

The ability to laugh at yourself, and even at tragic events saving grace.

The ability to laugh at yourself, and even at tragic events that touch you, can help to get you through the toughest times intact.

Women often put “GSOH’, as the personal ads abbreviate ‘good sense of humour’.

Top of their list of requirements for a man, whereas men inevitably put ‘slim’ Hmmm.

Enjoynment life and shared senses of humour can keep marriages going when little else remains of what you lusted for in each other in your youth.

As one woman whose face and figure bore little relationship to those her husband had courted.

But whose wicked sense of humour had remained unscathed, said I knew we were heading for divorce when he said

‘You stupid cow”, when I accidentally knocked over a can of paint as we were doing up the kitchen.

When we were younger he would have laughed and we would probably have ended up on the floor together, rolling around in it instead of tetchily looking for the turps.

Long before there were ‘virtual’ worlds to explore on the internet, as there are now, and so much learning accessible to those with the facility to ‘surf’ and ‘download’ there were adult education classes in everything from Afrikaans to Zen Buddhism to keep you in touch with the rest of the world. Why not consider the range of adventures from Alexander Technique to Yoga to keep you in touch with your body and yourself? Maeve Binchy’s wonderful book Evening Class shows how new worlds and new friendships can open up from such things. Now that libraries have computers for readers’ use and schemes to put ‘grannies on the net’, as the headlines screamed, it’s getting ever easier to have green adventures as the press of a button in the Enjoynment life.

But all learning should be a great adventure, and the day you think it’s not, or think that you’re too old to learn, is the day you should probably start packing your cases for that final journey.

Manchester College of Oxford University is just one of an increasing number of centers for further learning around the world that have recognized the desire of older people to savour the delights of the full or part time undergraduate experience when they are mature enough ti appreciate it. (Youth is wasted on the young, as we now know). Grants were eagerly applied for from a wide cross section of students in the early nineties, The first intake included a chief of police coming up to retirement age, a former slimming club for the year so that they could live in student digs and totally immerse themselves in the learning and social life of the college.

Enjoynment life and most had a whale of a time, just enjoying learning for learning’s sake, without a thought of where it would lead. For one, a wife and mother in her fifties, the whole experience was ‘pure pleasure;, and having the luxury to worry about nothing but intellectual debate instead of all her normal wifely and motherly tasks was a sheer delight. She loved riding her bicycle through cobbled streets and having late night arguments about changing the world. This was truly learning for learning’s sake, although some of the students did put their degrees to professional use.