'To Bless All Mankind' July 18, 2016 Issue

Retirees’ secret to happiness? Giving back

<i>The Monitor’s</i> Editorial Board

Adapted from an article published in The Christian Science Monitor, March 25, 2016.

Thinking of a retirement full of cruises to each of the Seven Seas? Or maybe an expedition to Antarctica, or lolling in a bungalow in Bora Bora?

For those who’ve carefully stuffed their pennies in their piggy banks for years an exotic trip or two may be an eye-opening and rewarding experience.

But what really generates happiness, says psychiatrist Marc Agronin in a commentary in The Wall Street Journal, are connections—to family, friends, and to some wider community. In fact, if you travel too often, you may begin to feel like a stranger in your own home while, at the same time, those important human connections have begun to wither.

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