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<p>Real life is a phrase used originally in <a href="/facts/Literature/CmUDxokU">literature</a> to distinguish between the real world and <a href="/facts/Fictional/p1AY3Xp4">fictional</a>, virtual or idealized worlds, and in <a href="/facts/Acting/YEX0jSJv">acting</a> to distinguish between <a href="/facts/Actors/JlSNxot8">actors</a> and the <a href="/facts/Character_(arts)/nvuzQRyP">characters</a> they portray. It has become a popular term on the <a href="/facts/Internet/Xw1rVvJU">Internet</a> to describe events, people, activities, and interactions occurring offline; or otherwise not primarily through the medium of the Internet. It is also used as a metaphor to distinguish life in a vocational setting as opposed to an academic one, or adulthood and the adult world as opposed to childhood or adolescence.[<i>not verified in body</i>] </p>