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What is the best age to enjoy life?

Age 0-20 - You have lots of time, good health but no money, so it can be difficult to enjoy life to fullest as you definitely need money to enjoy.

Age 20-65- You might have some money, but you don’t have time to enjoy it.

Age 65+- You might have money and time, but too many aches, pains, and health problems to enjoy life.. The truth is that there is no objective answer to that question. Too many variables.

Most of us have a “main era” of life, a time when we perhaps accomplish most or perhaps are in our prime. For Joseph, his life took off when he was thirty. For Moses, it was when he was 80. For Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist, it was perhaps in her 60’s. For the Apostle John, it was when he was yet a teenager.

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