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Phrase: Living the good life
Check on the Internet, and you’ll discover living the good life means living in comfort and luxury with very few problems or worries.
However, what do comfort and luxury mean?
More specifically, what is a luxury, anyway?
Well, it just so happens that I, entirely by coincidence, have recently created a lesson titled ‘The Meaning of Luxury‘ about just that topic.
It appears that the idea of luxury has changed.
Living the good life used to mean posh houses, big, expensive cars and luxurious brand-name goods.
These days living the good life can mean only working five days a week or not having to fret about paying the rent each month.
Most students look at me funny when I say luxury is having a fridge that makes ice, but I think it is a luxury.
On a sweltering day in August, having an endless supply of ice to put in your drink means you’re living the good life in my book.
It’s the small things in life that count the most.
There are a lot of miserable rich people in the world.
They have all kinds of luxuries, yet they are not living the good life.
Remember, to live the good life, you need comfort, luxury, and few problems or worries.
In Japan, most of us have a high level of comfort.
Luxury depends on the person.
A top-spec kei-car or a Mercedes-Benz C-class both qualify as luxury to different people.
Problems and worries are the tricky part.
If you are lucky enough to have a sufficient income to meet your needs, not enough to make you rich, mind, just enough to pay the bills, then compared to many less well-off people in the world, you are living the good life.
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