Talking about your lifestyle

Here are some expressions for talking positively about your lifestyle.

- What a good life I have!

- I have everything I ever wanted.

- I'm active, and I have no real money worries.

- I have a certain amount of stress, but I'm healthy.

Here are some expressions for talking negatively about your lifestyle.

- I've realized there's something missing in my life.

- I thought I had everything I ever wanted.

- I live from paycheck to paycheck.

- I'm wondering if my decision was a mistake.

Here are some expressions to support someone who is worried about their lifestyle.

- It's normal to stop sometimes and think about your life.

- Are you thinking about making a change?

- It's never too late.

Sentence variety.

To make reading more interesting, writers vary the length and types of their sentences. Notice the dramatic effect of the different sentence lengths in this paragraph.

 

I thought it would be easy to find a good job and support myself once I graduated from college. Now that I've applied for more than 100 jobs, I realized I was mistaken. Jobs don't come easy. Rent is unreasonable. And I live from paycheck to paycheck. In fact, I'm no longer sure where I want to be in life. Life can be hard, but I'm not giving up.

Interesting texts include a combination of sentence types: simple, compound and complex. Here are examples of simple sentences, which have just one clause.

 

Jobs don't come easy.

Rent is unreasonable.

by a comma ( , ) or words like and, but, however or so.

 

- Rent is unreasonable, and I live from paycheck to paycheck.

- Life can be hard, but I'm not giving up.

Here are examples of complex sentences, which may have one independent clause joined to one dependent clause (a clause that is not a full sentence) with words like once, now that, although, because or that.

 

- I thought it would be easy to find a good job and support myself once I graduated from college.

- Now that I've applied for more than 100 jobs, I realized I was mistaken.

- Don't let work influence your decision.

- I'm wondering if my decision was a mistake.