"Living your best life" - makes me rage

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AIBU?

The phrase "living your/their best life" makes my teeth itch.

Surely everybody is living their best life. Even if it is shit, it may be the best it can be.
It's not as if anybody sets out to live not their best life

It is one of the most ridiculous expressions around at the moment.

I never post on these threads but suddenly the term Baby Daddy, makes me stop caring about whatever is said afterwards , sorry.

Living their best life is up there with #makingmemories

Twee, bile inducing, nonsense.

I was just saying to DW yesterday that I couldn’t work out why the phrase gives me the rage.

I think it’s context - it seems exclusively used in a smug, sanctimonious and showy way.

Exactly. It has an air of smugness. And a best life created for the flaunting of it on social media.

I have just ground my teeth at an adult saying something was yummy!

Tbf your teeth aren’t really itching are they?

I have to agree that after Baby Daddy anything is acceptable.

I've only ever heard it said in a sarcastic way, when someone has done something stupid....I like it, it makes I laff

Surely everybody is living their best life.

I most definitely am not. Can’t get worked up about the phrase either tbh.

I hate it too but I also can’t stand “making my teeth itch” Don’t even know why it exists, how do teeth itch??

“Makes my teeth itch” is hardly better.

I’ve only ever heard it said ironically. Eg. ‘I’m living my best life’ while scrubbing dog shit off the carpet in the lounge. That sort of thing.

YANBU.

It manages to be both unbearably smug and nauseatingly twee. Revolting expression.

In my experience ‘livingmybestlife’ translates loosely into idiotic ‘gettingmyselfinto20kdebtillblameonthegovernmenttherestofmylifewhilstlivingonUC’

I've only ever seen it used in a sarcastic or ironic way TBH.

I think ‘making memories’ is worse. DH has a terminal illness (not terminal yet) and every thing we do together as a family like walking the dog, having a party, eating out-if I tell people someone will say ‘ah, that’s nice, making memories’.
I know they’re wanting to say something kind but his illness doesn’t define us.

Same as @OneOfTheGrundys, I’ve only known it used ironically. “Oh, you know, living my best life”, when someone asks you how you are after a particularly awful or just terribly mundane week. I’m sure it was used by Instagrammers wholeheartedly initially but even they realised how twee and meaningless it sounds pretty quickly,

Yes....I agree! That and ‘baby daddy’ 🙄 really???

@Bravelurker yes, babydaddy is utterly repulsive!

It really irritates me, as does "what a treat" - said in a smug baby voice by a woman who was paying for her own meal, at a restaurant she had booked for us, it was very nice but the word "treat" sounds like something for a dog or a child

Yep only heard it being said ironically. Used a lot at work.