So “Living your best life” is the Current Hot Phrase

Sounds like something Oprah said years ago.

I think Oprah is to blame. This book came out in 2005.

The front cover should have been first. The book is a compendium of Oprah Magazine articles.

ESSENCE

Sounds better than "Hopelessly Shallow"?

Contest to be Best Life Ambassadors

Is Oprah's [italic]O That's Good![/italic] microwave soup really a part of living one's best life?

Mega churches & Prosperity Gospel.

I’m 100% serious.

God people are so fucking stupid. Obviously it's a phrase used by people who have shit all around their house that says "live, laugh, love" Thanks for the advice I was planning to "die cry hate"

RObert kraft living his best life

It's said with a mix of sarcasm, irony and a bit of Oprah worship/love.

[quote] Thanks for the advice I was planning to "die cry hate"

That could be a DL slogan!

DL is full of no-shows.

I'm holding space for you OP.

We must all tell our truths!

Thank you for your part in my journey Datalounge.

#blesssd #cursed

Hi, Datalounge! My name is Aspyn. My pronouns are they/them.

I'm here to serve as your best-life facilitator. This is how that looks: I will work tirelessly to always center DL in safety while providing you a space in which to unpack the traumas and feels that are holding you back from living YOUR best life!

If there's anything I can do for you, please employ your silent jazz hands. Clapping, snapping, and vocalizations louder than a whisper are expressions of violence and will not be tolerated in this space.

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“So...” what?

How bout when people say they are “living their truth?”

R18: Hi, Aspyn! You're special!

I can't post now. I'm busy living my best life

Hi, R22! I'm not sure why you'd choose to marginalize everyone else in this thread by singling me out as special, but that was so not cool.

Your all-consuming privilege is what's preventing you from living YOUR best life.

Always here to help,

BRB stepping into my truth.

I see you, R25.

Hehe

R24: Aspyn (may I call you Aspyn?), my sincerest apologies for making you feel uncomfortable. This is a safe space and I overstepped my boundaries. My bad. I'll assess why I am allowing my beautiful, white, gay, well-endowed, male privilege to prevent me from living my best life. It will be a game changer for sure.

R24 has stated their boundaries.

R28, your privilege knows no bounds. Where are the apologies for those who are literally being killed by your words? You've only apologized to me because I too present as a beautiful, white, well-endowed cis-man. Shame on you!

At this point the only acceptable action is the creation of a GoFundMe — which I will administer — to support the participants in this space as they struggle with the self-care needed to survive your all-out effort to erase them.

Love,

I'm triggered by Aspyn's scarf. I am LITERALLY being killed right now.

R30: Aspyn, your response is totally epic! Are you on the Gram? I want to follow you every day. You are so adorbs. Totally gorg! You kind of make me want to be, like, a better person for sure.

Yes R12! In fact a whole thread for proto DL alternatives to the Ur-FrauMantra:

Live. Laugh. Love.

in the vein of

Die. Hate. Cry.

[quote]You are so adorbs. Totally gorg!

Do you really mean it, r32? No one has ever really taken an interest in me, in [italic]that[/italic] way.

Soooo many feels right now.

This thread resonates with me.

Obama is living his best life yo

Nick JONas Is living his best life

There is also "be your best self" which I wish people would actually try more

Dying your worst death.

Snatching your Lesbian breast

Before "living your best life" we had "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" Auntie Mame continues to be my spiritual guide. I have sufficient.

r41 America tried following her advice and now the majority of people are obese. Coincidence? I think not!

Be Best.

😂 lol

Are you living your best life?

Additionally, people are saying “I’m here for it” to mean they really want something to happen.

The Christian version of the song went down on New Year’s Eve at New Birth Church in Georgia where the message was about living your best life in 2019. While Duval sings “I’m living my best life; I ain’t going back and forth with you n-words,” the New Birth choir sang, “I’m living my best life, I ain’t going back and forth with no sinners. I’m living my best life; New Birth is for all the winners.”

You know something is played out when white folks start saying it

R10. Think of the money we’d make off wall stickers that say “Shit, Fuck, Steal”

I lived my best life today by calling out sick

I gave this to my good friend Oprah several years ago.

It used to be, ten years ago, “living the life” , or “ la vida loco”. This was fun. Then “best” busted in and made it all uptight. You only want to live, sometimes with abandon, and that is the point. “Best” is a lot of pressure. “Best” is landscaping and scary colleges.

As overused platitudes go, "Best Life" is probably less irritating than "New Normal."

Living His Best Life: John Thomas Takes A Ride On Ethan Metz’s Monster Cock

“Living the dream!” is equally cringe inducing

Haters are living their best life by hating other people and how they live their lives.

Trolls live their best life by trying to get others mad and angry.

We ALL live our best lives by the choices we make in life.

So profound bro

The frau hosts of Entertainment Tonight say it like a mantra.

"Living my best life," is said by someone not too smart who is trying to paper over the wreck that is his life.

Oh really

It’s usually employed by angry youngish women on Instagram after they’ve been dumped by a man in a attempt to convince him and everyone else they aren’t miserable. See also “blessedAF” and any photo of a woman’s hand holding a wine glass.

My life is all about finding the best dick.

Aim higher

It's up there with LIVING MY TRUTH and SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER.

Most young people who say it have no idea mother oprah is the origin

Like all profound, wise and self-affirming ideas, I made it up to uplift humanity! It is, of course, copyrighted.