Have you been on the hunt for joy this spring? Do you look at the ways others seem to experience joy and find yourself longing for the burst they seem to have that you are missing? Research tells us that joy is one of our most desired emotions, and that humans have from the beginning identified ways to generate it in daily life.

A recent New York Times article (March 28, 2022) says this: “Analyzing survey responses of more than 84,000 people of all ages in Britain, the researchers identified two distinct periods of adolescence when heavy use of social media spurred lower ratings of “life satisfaction”: first around puberty — ages 11 to 13 for girls, and 14 to 15 for boys — and then again for both sexes around age 19.”