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To have done something lively worth talking about rather than your usual daily/weekly activities. The person who has done these activities is the one who has lived.
Christine "What did you do this weekend?"
Gemma "I went to that gig with that guy then we stayed out drinking"
Christine "You have lived!"

Yasmin "This weekend I just watched TV and visited my gran. I have not lived."
Lived by GaGaOhLaLa March 2, 2011
They fell in love
Without even a single word…
Just that one look
Is all it took.

For their hearts to know
This was their show.
A love so immense
With a connection beyond intense.

The day comes
When they are one…
The stars went wild
As the moon had an enormous smile.
And they lived happily ever after❤️

lived experience 

Shit that never happened. By making up lurid tales designed to go viral activist types can spin a history of oppression in any scene, org, or society. Lived experience discounts subjectivity or just being wrong and is usually brought up after someone's claims have been debunked.

It can also refer to existential problems you do nothing about but blame others for: being poor, living in a ghetto shithole, being an addict, etc.

Like a lot of SJW jargon it was stolen from the CATT team where it refers to a failed suicide attempt in post intervention care.
"I got totally discriminated against by the racists and sexists at the lesbian vegan co-op"
"I was there and that didn't happen"
"Shut up and stop denying my lived experience"

lived-in 

A slightly untidy but homey feel, made with a comfortable but slightly worn or untidy look that is consistent with actual or current occupation. Usually used to describe state of one's hair or home.
"What's with your beard, Tom? You're kind of have a lived-in look."
"I just wanted to try it out."
"But if you keep up at this rate, you'll look like an Amish person!"
lived-in by hughlaurieaddict June 10, 2009

Lived experience 

And you hyper-fixate on it because you (to some extent) don't have an articulated or particularized self. How much of you actually identity is tied up in locality? "I went to this school and did this job." And I know how it's supposed to work. I'm supposed to infer from that based on the quality of the school and your occupation and I'm supposed to allow THAT INFERENCE to lend credence to the things you say or do... But it doesn't. Those are coordinates. That doesn't mean anything to anyone who isn't willing to pretend with you.
Hym "And my lived experience is more unique than yours. Imposed schizophrenia... Publicly embarrassed a mainstream intellectual... Pretty sure I started a labor movement. The auto worker guy quoted me except he replaced 'Retard' with 'Asshole.' So, you're welcome for that. I'm like an executive producer with an immaculate track-record. And what have you actually done? Nothing. You're contestant number 6# on a reality show and you know a guy."
Lived experience by Hym Iam October 24, 2023

The Boy Who Lived 

The Boy Who lived is another name of Harry Potter. He got the nickname when he became the only person to live through the killing curse at age 1.
Rita Skeeter (Hate her!) started the whole 'The Boy who lived' thing.
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Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
Northstarring by Light Bearer October 22, 2026
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