Essay Topic : Some people think that the teenage years are the happiest times of most people’s lives. Other think that adult life brings more happiness, in spite of greater responsibilities. Discuss both the views and give your opinion.

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To define happiness is really cumbersome and so academicians and philosophers has put forth innumerable definitions of it. Happiness depends upon various factors, viz, money, freedom, family/ friends etcetera. Although this may be true to some extent but I also believe that happiness is just a state of person’s mind at any given situation. Some people believe that teenage years are the happiest days in one’s life, whereas, some have totally different opinion. I agree with open arms to the former set of people’s opinion and will throw light on both view points in my following paragraphs.

When I think about my own teenage years, it reminds me of the time when there was only fun, great buddies, freedom to do anything etcetera. It will not be wrong to say that teenage life years are the golden years of one’s life. One can enjoy total freedom by roaming with friends, no pressure of the job and responsibilities. One does not have to take life too seriously or have to worry about finances or job satisfaction.

To my utter surprise, there are critics who believe that adulthood brings more enjoyment and people in this stage of life are happier than in their teenage years. There are many factors that prompts them to stick to this viewpoint. Some people may have faced tough time during their teenage years may be due to lack of basic facilities, education and could have faced financial difficulties. So when these people grow up and earn handsome salaries, have access to all modern facilities and have all luxury items in their platter, so psychologically they would be happier at that particular stage of life and so critics tend to vote for it.  

I want to conclude by saying that it depends completely on person to person how they feel about this debatable topic.