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Phrase: Live the dream
Hey, how are you doing?
Are you living the dream or what?
If you are, then let me congratulate you on a life well lived.
When you live the dream, you experience success and achieve everything you want to achieve.
This especially applies to your career.
The main problem with this is that most of us are not living the dream; we’re dreaming the dream.
Then, we wake up early on Monday morning and head off to work.
Now, you may think that sounds bad, but actually, it isn’t.
Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world.
Really, he’s the wealthiest person that has ever been.
No one person in the history of the world has ever amassed a fortune as great as his.
You’d think that if anyone were living the dream, it would be him, right?
Yet, he still works, and he still has goals he hasn’t achieved.
That’s what it means to be human.
We never stop dreaming.
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There’s always one more hill to climb or one more desert to cross.
We never get to live the dream because the dream always changes.
It gets bigger and better over time.
I don’t think that’s a bad thing.
On the contrary, I think it’s an excellent thing.
The desire to live the dream makes us productive and gives us a reason to get out of bed in the morning.
On another note, if you feel a little sarcastic and someone asks you how you are, you can reply by saying you are living the dream.
The nuance is that everything is lovely and couldn’t be better when both you and the person who asked you know full well that isn’t true.
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