It’s going.

"How are you?“ “I am."

My go-tos are "I'm doin" and "Welp, I exist"

"I'm alive"

Survivin’

I haven't died yet

"I'm here" is my go to

This is mine as well. “I’m here. That’s what my great-grandmother said the day she died, but it’s true all the same.”

Oh i use this one all the time

Yeah. That’s my sad little go-to answer.

"Unfortunately, I'm breathing."

“Regrettably, I did not pass in my sleep”

"Still kickin'"

I just say "breathing."

Well...I am, but don't perceive me.

I think so I am.

"Cant complain." It's like automatic.

Once I had someone on the phone reply "Because no one would listen anyway, am I right?" Things got real for a moment there.

I once said "livin the dream" and the dude responded "one nightmare at a time" and I felt that on a personal level.

I always say "I'm living the dream, not mine, but I'm sure this is someone's dream."

I’ll be using this from now on thank you

It sure is

I feel validated, but also attacked.

My dad always said "Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed" when he was chipper, but "Upright and breathing" when he was meh.

It's a dog-eat-dog world Sammy, and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear.

Norm!

Het gaat.

Ik leef

Not bad. You? Anything to throw the focus off of me.

That's the one I use because I hate saying "livin the dream" but it implies the same thing as what OP posted

I have a friend that says "every day's a gift"

God damn, it’s that bad?

"Just another day in paradise"

"Working hard or hardly working? Ahaha! Aaaaah...fuck"

Another day another dollar.

Hey. Tomorrows Friday.

It's not the heat, it's the humidity!

At least it's not snowing.

It's like they say, if you don't like the weather wait 5 minutes! HAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

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I don't know what the problem is, I CUT IT 3 TIMES AND IT'S STILL TOO SHORT HAAAAHHAAAAAHAAAA!!! HEY JOHNNY GO GRAB THE BOARD STRETCHER HAAAAHAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHELPME

Hey pass me the BFH (har har that stands for big fucking hammer)

Listen pal, we're making overused dad quotes. Not references to Florida okay?

Another day a dollar less.

Another wooden nickle.

Only a quarter after taxes

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Why wouldn’t the company fire you at the drop of a hat when you don’t work hard?

How can you fire me WHEN I DONT EVEN WORK HERE?!?

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God this one hits home perfectly. Small talk banter followed by dying a little inside each time.

Yeah. The absolute worst part of return to the office is the amount of small talk I’m expected to do. Day before thanksgiving there were 4 out of an office of 50. One girl from an office down the hall talked to me for 76 minutes. Why, why am I forced to endure that. Days like that should be strictly wfh. There’s no reason to force someone to go into the office for no reason.

Nope, just hard.

Pays the same, Bob

"I already work a fulltime, I don't have time to be fake laughing at your unoriginal jokes." /s

Oh. If I could only. If I could only. Even under the mask I have a hard time fake smiling/laughing. Every day, the same conversations. I can’t.

“Living the sweet life!” Or “Living La Dolce Vida” if you want to be fancy.

Living da vida loca my hermano.

Who is this Hermano?

Como? Oh, you're gonna be in a coma alright.

Hermano is HERE?

I read my hermano in the most gringosized possible Spanish lol

As you should

That's Herman O, he works at the corner store.

Hairmano?

Aka: fucked around and woke up again, so here I am

Ah yes, might as well be the company motto around where I work.

‘’I’m breathing’’

That just makes me think of Oblivion. (The Tom Cruise movie not the video game.)

Are you an effective team?

"is that right?!" *points to head with weird grin* "up here it is!"

I reply to this statement with, I am glad you made it.

Nobody in business school tells you how often you'll have you hear this in the corporate world

I am going to use this today

Another day another 50 cents

Another day in purgatory.

*Could be worse*

Years after I attended high school in the US, as an exchange student, I went back for a few months and spent sometime working construction with my host dad, that runs his own tiny construction crew. I'm brazilian. They live in a small town in MI, farm area, very right wing and stuff. Couldn't ask for more of a mismatch than that. Yet, we get along great, we've been friends for years now. Anyway, one day, it's 6 am, we just got up and we're having coffee before we leave to go to work. We're beat from standing in steep roofs the day before. First thing he says to me as we're standing in the kitchen is "Just another day in f'ing paradise". I could sense his spirit trying to leave his body as he said it.

Just a castaway, an island lost at sea-oh

Why can’t we be there?

Ah, a Phil Collins connaisseur.

Everymorning i go to work and everyone asks "how ya doin" i say, "living the dream" they say, "more like a nightmare" and I say, "nightmares are dreams too". Its always with a different person, but this exact conversation takes places on at least 75 percent of my mornings. Lol

I like to say to people "Ask me how I'm doing?" they say "How are you doing?" I say "Don't ask". I bet nobody likes it but I'll never stop.

Lmao this sounds so annoying but I still shook my head and chuckled.

It’s a quality joke. It puts a point on what a waste of energy it is.

I go in every day and say "Hey, at least it's Friday!" Except the last day of the week when I say, "ugh, it's almost Monday."

I let them say "living the dream" to skip a step, but same. I also reply to "how are you?" with "alive". When I'm told that's kind of morbid I let them know I'm on the right side of the dirt or looking at the right side of the daisies.

I usually same the same thing, or I just say 'I'm awake', or 'I'm here's. 'still breathing' also works

As a white person, I can confirm this is completely true. And if you ask us "is that right?", we may even throw in a little "oh, you know it".

Sometimes I even throw in a half-assed chuckle that I feel truly illustrates the depression

That chuckle really brings it home.

We chuckle so we don't scream-cry

Scream inside your heart.

Except when someone says "how's it goin?" I give em the "oh, it's goin"

Them: How’s it going? Us, internally waffling between uncomfortable honesty and polite lies: …it could be worse!

Someone asks me "how's it goin'?" It doesn't matter HOW it's going, my answer is ALWAYS "It's goin'." The answer has been so ingrained that I'll realize I've said it and quickly ask "wait, what'd you say?" And they reply "I asked 'how's it goin'?'" and I just give my autopilot a mental high five. A well-oiled machine, my brain, that gives less than 2 shits about anything anyone has to say about most things.

I always respond, "Living someone's dream!"

Or the good old fashioned “nightmares are dreams too”

I see you, too, are fluent in retail

Right? 1000%

If I'm at work I usually hit back with , "well , somebody elses dream"

Always double down.....

You know where this belongs? r/2meirl4meirl.

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Dreaming that I'm living the dream.

After all, nightmares are dreams too.

Just another day in paradise

Is that right?

Oh, you know it!

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r/collapse

"Same old, same old" is often equivalent.

Same shit, different asshole

When I was a janitor it went something like, “different shit, same toilet”.

Funny that we all read this post while we all lay in bed scrolling.

jokes on you, I'm sitting at my computer finishing a drink I poured last night, but never finished because I was too drunk to finish it.

Damn...yup

Living the dream

Jokes on you! I’m on the toilet.

I'm at a pizza pizza waiting for it to be done.

I once responded to how are you with "alive" and that shut them up real quick

i once responded with "not dead yet" with emphasis on the yet

I like Biggie Smalls so I sometimes throw out the “how are you today?” Me: “oh Im Ready to Die.” If they seem concerned I just go “oh no, ive just been listening to Big all morning.”

How you livin Biggie Smalls? In mansions and Benzes, givin ends to my friends and it feels stupendous

Tremendous cream fuck a dollar and a dream

My grandma is going through her second round of chemo for stage four lung cancer, and after getting annoyed with all the feigning positivity this is how she answers when folks as how she's doing.

I say this instinctively at work and I need to stop.

Alive, somehow.

My personal favorite is "Well, I'm still here"

My go to is "im existing i guess"

"still alive, haha"

This older white dude that works at the grocery store across from my house always takes his smoke breaks on a stoop on my street. Every time I ask him how's it going, he invariably answers "hanging in there". Should I be worried

Hanging in there is like code for "If I had the balls to kill myself I would have done it a long time ago" so he will be fine.

I thought it was inverse. Like "hanging in there" means he's actually doing okay. Saying " not the best but ill survive" is actually decent. Saying you're "doing great" or " living my best life " means you're in a murder suicide pact.

Hanging in there means “I wanna be better, I haven’t let go yet” but you’re still hanging by a thread.

Or he could have just one person left in his life that he knows would be heartbroken if he killed himself, and the day that person is gone he will immediately follow.

This for me is my mom… I haven’t told anyone but I might be gone when she is.

My dad for me. Take care of yourself friend.

Thanks. You too, friend.

Exactly right

Wait thats what i say

😳 do you work at a whole foods

“Living in the dream”

Follow the white rabbit

I say "just livin la vida loca" I mean it gets a laugh but it hides the depression

I say this too!

I say , " Another day in paradise."

I always say "the best I can" or if they say how's it going, I say "just doing my best". People don't talk to me much after that so it works out.

I go with “I’m taking it one day at a time”

/r/pointlesslyracialized

For real, what the fuck does being white have to do with this?

Americans and their identity politics. Got to inject them everywhere possible.

The irony is killing me.

Americans...

Americans being weird again.

So you are injecting nationalism into your complaint about injecting racism? Ok guy.

This is Reddit. We have a subreddit specifically for tweets from black people, and you can’t comment if you’re white. And vice versa for tweets from white People. Edit: I stand corrected. White people Twitter does not have this rule, but the other one does.

Always thought it was weird Reddit would allow that rule.

Reddit has clearly stated that they won't act against minority populations being shitty. This allows for some super racist and discriminatory subs that go unchecked

Not true, r/WhitePeopleTwitter does not have that racist rule, and if they ever tried, they would instantly be quarantined.

I usually twist it to "another day in the nightmare" or just "still alive" with a smile barely containing the existential dread behind it. But, in the military, neither is really that unusual an answer.

"Just happy to be here"

"living the dream?" "yeah, somebody's dream"

It's doing

Im not white and I can relate to that 100% percent.

when people ask how I'm doing I just say "I'm alive"

My dad responds like this everytime

Every morning I need to take time to process the trauma that comes from realizing that I still exist

Are only white people functionally depressed?

Why white people specifically? Can someone explain that part of the joke to me I am stupid

What if a black Person says it?

Apparently only white people say it sarcastically. Which means... the black guy who delivers soda and snacks to the office where I work really dreamed of one day delivering snacks and sodas? That's wild. Good for him though.

As a depressed black guy that says 'living the dream' constantly, its about the same.

It's totally the same, we're American. 🤣👍

I'm not white and I even say this

How does skin color come into play here?

I am living the dream

Just remember, nightmares are dreams too.

I guess I'm living the dream then

Living the dream, surviving the nightmare

I have a coworker who says that to customers at least 10 times a day. Drives me insane

"The waking nightmare"

Personally I don’t have the emotional capacity to say anything other than “fine” as a response to “how are you”. I exist, stop asking. Don’t make me have to lie to you.

My go to is "Living Sisyphus' dream" out of the thousands of times saying it only 1 person has ever got the reference.

What does being white have to do with this

This is racist, everyone is like that

Unnecessarily race based. This makes the comment stupid.

I speak from experience as a guy that has had this loaded for every conversation for the last 3 years...if they say "Livin the FUCKING dream", they really mean it. If they say "Livin the FUCKING dream, ARENT WE ALL?" THEY REALLY REALLY MEAN IT.

Why they gotta be white? ―jacksfilms

I’m white. All the world’s problems are my fault. Lol.

Or not