I've heard that saying a lot.
Maybe this friend of yours works at my place? Haha!
I do not know if I am living the dream. In college, I took an English Lit class called "American Dream: Illusion or Reality?". I scored a "B". Anyway...
I have a house finally, after 12 years of renting and paying too much. College education. 2 cars (one is 13 years old the other is 15!)
A dog. Front and back yard green and grassy, small savings account, flexible work schedule, short commute, some toys, moderately ok health.
YET
I am not happy.
I do not want this life. I do not want to work where I do, nor live where i do. I want to be a kid, and play with my brother in the open wild grassy fields in the sunshine and pretend we are soldiers trying to free the "whomever" this time. I want my old dog back. I want not to hurt all the time.
I want what I can't have. I work too long of hours. I potentially "kill" people for a living (Work for Defense contractor). I want to be happy.
I believe it is said as a joke, knowing that no one lives a dream because it is all an illusion.
said sarcastically, "Hey you living the dream yet?!" I hear this all the time because I live in a world of other people dissatisfied with their current place in life.
Yet I supposedly have it all?
IDK.
I just saw on TV this morning, as I get ready to go to work... "Office jobs turning to farm workers?" Yeah, I have thought of that SOO many times. I want to grow food, give back, be peaceful, be away from it all. Eat my hard work.
I am not living the dream I saw when I was a kid. My dreams morphed, I changed. I can not catch the dream.