Are you living in a cotton wool or in a glass house?

Today’s English
September 22nd, 2017

What kind of living you have matters first. You may just be a living soul (any ordinary person who lives on earth) or become a living legend (a person with exclusionary reputation).  If your life is so painful to the extent that you may feel that you had better die, it's a living death and then the place- your working place or your home is a living hell.

1. Our manager, a living legend was honoured by everyone on the special occasion.
2. Any living soul can understand my problem. Why can't you?
3. How do you feel in your new working place? Is it a living hell or living heaven?
4. Without a permanent job on the one side and with a lot of problems in family life on the other side, what a miserable life he has! It's really a living death.

Where and how you actually live matters next. Do you live in a cotton wool (= having a comfortable life) or in a glass house (=a life often easily affected by the criticism and exploitation of others)?  Do you live high on the hog(= live very well with wealth and all comforts) or live on a shoestring(= live with tight financial budget, with hand-to- mouth existence? You know, it's not good if you live payslip to payslip (= spend all salary before next salary, having zero savings).

1. You live in a cotton wool. You can't understand my problem.
2. Why do you take her criticism seriously and worry a lot? Don't live in a glass house.
3. She is living high on the hog but her own brother is living on a shoestring.
4. Could you please give me thousand rupees? Sorry friend, I'm just living payslip to payslip.

What matters finally is to live awake.  Are you in the land of living (= awake and live in the present) or living on another planet (live in the past or dream world, not awake) most of the time in your life?

1. Sorry I couldn't listen to her well. I was just living on another planet. Please tell me what she said.
2. It's time to return to the land of living and understand practical difficulties involved in this work.

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
- Albert Einstein