Essay | The Lifelong Power of Close Relationships

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What’s the most important investment you can make in your long-term health and happiness? A study that has tracked participants for 85 years says the answer is close personal relationships

When it comes to understanding what happens to people as they go through life, pictures of entire lives—of the choices people make and the paths they follow, and how it all works out for them—are almost impossible to get. Most of what we know about human life we know from asking people to remember the past, and memories are full of holes. The more time that passes, the more details we forget, and research shows that the act of recalling an event can actually change our memory of it.

But what if we could watch entire lives as they unfold through time? What if we could study people from the time that they were teenagers all the way into old age to see what really matters to a person’s health and happiness, and which investments really paid off? For 85 years , the Harvard Study of Adult Development, which we now direct, has tracked an original group of 724 men and more than 1,300 of their male and female descendants over three generations, asking thousands of questions and...

 

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Adopt a rescue dog.

Amen 🙏

It's almost like we evolved to get 100% of our needs, meaning, and happiness in a close-knitted tribe 🤔

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Have a kind heart and be grateful.

Add regular exercise, drink lots of water, sleep well, brush your teeth, eat healthy....

Obviously, the answer is to get vaccinated and boosted immediately.

This is an eternal truth, relationships are most precious gifts: 'Two are better than one, [...] But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up [...] a threefold cord is not quicky broken.' -- Ecclesiastes 4 ❤️

I would agree with this. Unfortunately social media has made that extremely hard as we, as a society, have become chameleons and keyboard warriors.

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