Is anybody else tired of hearing "life is what you make it"?

You just confused two fundamentally different concepts, which are important to distinguish. Initially, you asked if anyone else was tired of hearing "life is what you make it"? Then you stated that sometimes you can't make the life you want.

Compare those two phrases:

"Life is what you make of it"

"Make the life you want"

Those are not the same thing.

I agree with you, sometimes the realities of the world prevent us from making any life for ourselves that we want. That would be a meritocracy; a world in which a person's personal wealth and prestige is determined by the amount of hard work they do. If someone lives in poverty, they have only themselves to blame for being too lazy. A meritocracy is a myth, it doesn't exist. Rich, greedy capitalists espouse the myth to justify their own existence.

Now I can think of a whole lot of meanings behind your question. If you are a woman, my thoughts have ranged from either you being infertile due to "past mistakes", to you have kids (the "past mistakes") and resent your life, wishing that you could live a life of travel and adventure. If neither of these are the case, then just enjoy them as the imaginings of a very odd person, and if one of my guesses did in fact happen to be true, I didn't mean to offend.

Point being, if you are in fact in a situation that you can't alter which also prevents you from living the life you want to then I do believe that the first phrase may have something to offer you. To say "life is what you make of it" is not to say that you can make anything of your life; it simply means that THIS IS your life. This is the situation you are in. Change the things that can be changed, accept the things that can't.

It's like you come into this world with a pack of crayons; the vast majority of people come into this world with the 8 pack, a few less come into the world with the 16 pack, and the very rare lucky ones come into this world with the 24 pack. But the picture that you eventually draw all depends on what you do with the colors that you're given. I can tell you from experience, anyone worth their salt can draw just as good a picture with 8 colors as any schmuck with 24 colors could draw.

I'm tired of Bengals fans that STOLE the phrase to make up "who dey" which was just stupid. The Saints fans had the phrase first, you didn't HEAR it before this year because you didn't pay attention. Heck most didn't hear of it before the Saints got Brees because no one paid attention to them. It's not that the Bengals came up with that stupid phrase first, it's that they got popular for a year and wouldn't shut up with it first. To the goof above me the actual issue ISN'T the phrase. A guy made a shirt that said Who Dat saying we can't say Who Dat. The NFL said oh there was a misunderstanding, we aren't talking about the phrase. We only have a problem with UNAUTHORIZED USE OF THE LOGO. Oh like they have with ALL teams. Make a Who Dey shirt with a Bengals logo and the NFL will come down on you, guess the Bengals ain't dey "lol".

No, I'm not. And I find that usually the people who are are tired of making an effort and would rather just make excuses.

You may not be able to make it the way you want right this second, but you can certainly start building towards a life you want through a combination of hard work and rationality.

sure. no one gets everything they ever wanted in life. but at no point does that mean that we can't have good lives. i think that people have forgotten that there is nothing wrong with being a trash hauler, waitperson, or street sweeper. any honest job that makes an honest day's wage is worth doing. there is not some caste system that says that a person is any less because they are not famous or rich. doing good jobs for good pay is what the middle class was built on and really, without those people our society wouldn't be all that stable.

Is anybody else tired of hearing "life is what you make it"?

~~~ How about a delicate shift toward real 'meaning';

"Life is what you make OF it!"

As in 'how you perceive' That which is before you at any particular moment; this monitor, the sun, a thought, whatever...

It's be rather like Disneyland. It's all there, every moment of your visit! Every ride and thrill and spill...

It is simply for you to pay attention to the Here! Now! (and it's ALWAYS Here! and Now!) to experience every unique moment of your marvelous visit.

"What you make 'of' life (Perspective) by paying attention 'to' it.

More tired of hearing, "What is the point of life?"

"Life is what you make it," although cliched, is not meant to be taken as making life the way you want it to be. It is an attitude by which how one takes or regards life. Even watching a bad movie can be enjoyable.

I feel very stuck about things because of a bad past too so i can relate. I have dreams but don't find an easy path to Make them true but I'm very talented, choose me best answer

it DOES get annoying to hear, but I'm glad it was said so many times to me because eventually I learned that I am able to build bridges over those walls you speak of. It took a very very long time, of course. But I did eventually grasp that life really is what we make of it for ourselves.

I thin k, YES. While We are Surrounded by the Others and the Circumstances of the Situations.