“Build a life....don’t live one.” Does that actually mean anything?
If you use Acme’s 21st Century Gobbledygook Decoder Ring it does!
I get it as...
Instead of just going through life watching everyone around you doing everything for you, get off your ass and build your own path.
I get it as Build the life you want to live, don’t just live a life that you think you’re supposed to, or what you’re told to live.
Sure there’s a difference. It’s responsibility. If you build a life, you are the one who “constructs” it, if you live a life, then you’re just rolling with the punches, living whatever comes along, and probably acting the victim because of it.
Building versus just living puts the individual in the driver’s seat and not just the happenstance of fate.