Everyday life  

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Woman at her Toilet (c. 1661-65) by Jan Steen. This detail shows the legs with sock marks.

The Smoker (ca. 1654 - 1662) by Joos van Craesbeeck

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Personal life (or everyday life or human existence) is the course of an individual human's life, especially when viewed as the sum of personal choices contributing to one's personal identity. It is a common notion in modern existence – although more so in more prosperous parts of the world, such as Western Europe and North America, where there are service industries designed to help people improve their personal lives via psychotherapy.

See also

• Activities of daily living
• Boredom
• Existentiell
• Genre painting
• Human condition
• Lifestyle (sociology)
• Lifeworld
• Maslow's hierarchy of needs
• Personal life
• Realism
• Realism (arts)
• Reality
• Shibui
• Simple living
• Subsistence
• Sexual life
• Utensil

Further reading

• The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) - Sigmund Freud
• Critique of Everyday Life (1947) - Henri Lefebvre
• The Revolution of Everyday Life (1967) - Raoul Vaneigem
• The Practice of Everyday Life (1974) - Michel de Certeau