What does 'living well' look like/mean?

[dippingmytoeinagain]

I read on here from time to time that the best revenge (if that's the right word) is to 'live well'. What does that mean or look like to you? Having spent the day trying to sort out a very untidy garden and jet washing the patio, waiting for the boiler man to come to fix the broken down boiler and keeping on top of all the household stuff, I somehow don't feel like I am there yet!
Hoping for some words of inspiration!

I think it means being happy in your skin, confident, feeling in control, making a difference, having a purpose ... that's what I call living well. Doesn't matter if you're jet-washing the patio or jet-setting in Acapulco then.

To me it means that you can walk past the git that hurt you you with your head high and a smile on your face, showing them that you couldn't care less about them, that might not exactly be what people mean on here but that's it to me.

I think it means that if they walked past your home and saw in the lit windows, they would see people and laughter and warmth and happiness. You looking well and happy, busy, with people around you. Not hangdog and gone to pot, one disaster after another. They might hear that you climbed a mountain last year, or you speak French now, or you got that masters and learnt to play the piano. Etc. live well and be happy!

Blimey Something. I feel I'm just hanging on most of the time.

It means walking tall and having confidence that you are in a far better place than you have been before.
It is being successful at whatever you do or how you feel.
You are being successful at getting on with it. Whatever your story you sound like you are coping well.
That to me is living well.

To me it means being in control - not overspending or overeating, having good self care, being kind to people and being a good friend.

The rest will follow imo.

Thank you all! Yeah, actually, thinking about what I've done today, I guess I am doing OK. Patio needs jetwashing? No wishing there was someone to do it for me, just got on and did it myself (and had a smile on my face when I left the usually very neatly coiled cable in a snarled heap on the floor )
Just need to find a way of indulging and treating myself a little more - but for the moment, I'll enjoy my cup of tea and egg custard now the kids are tucked away in bed.
Might check out cost of piano lessons - always wanted to play...
Thanks again

For me, it is pushing your own boundaries, never saying not to am invitation and being happy and satisfied with the life you have rather than wishing for one that you want. Worked for me!

For me it means having a full life which is productive and useful in which ever way you have chosen, whether it's career or raising children well (or both) and eventually being loved by a partner who deserves your love in return, and living within the morals and rules you like, and managing to hold it all together with at least sometimes a smile on your face in spite of the occasional blip, and feeling that life is so full that you are generally indifferent towards or sometimes even pleased that you are no longer with the ex who caused you so much pain. That's when you're really over it.

It's being happy and fulfilled. That can take numerous forms - family, job, friends, hobby, although usually it helps to have a balance between those things.

It's not about material wealth (although poverty makes it much harder to live well), nor is it about being in a couples relationship. However, relationships with others - friends, family and children, really really matter.

Superficially it could mean money but so many wiser definitions here. Be rich in friends and friendships, while laughing and living life.

Pushing boundaries very true.

"Living well is the best revenge" means letting go of the past rather than wallowing in resentment at past injuries.

If someone is dreadful or abusive to you, seems to want to get at you, wants you to be unhappy (although they may claim otherwise), then your best revenge is not to seek actual revenge upon them, but to move on completely and find peace. Otherwise you are still caught up in their game, their dynamic.

Not quite what others on this thread are talking about, but in the context of the original question I think this is what it means.

Whenever I'm feeling a bit down, I like to take out a couple of little bits of paper, torn from the obituary pages of The Universe many years ago and look at them.

And then I have a quiet little chuckle with the breath I possess and they do not.

Jet washing the patio is 'living well' if you and you are going to benefit from it. It's far better than moping, listening to "All By Myself" and FB stalking your ex!

As far as I'm concerned, it's about taking control of your own life. So for me, it was everything from taking my ex off the car insurance, to putting fuel in the car for the first time in years, or taking the children away for the weekend on my own to losing weight, changing my image and performing solo on stage. It's anything that's about you being you and not stalling your life by obsessing over someone who is no longer there.