keeping up
Not falling behind
Keeping up means maintaining pace with something or someone.
You keep up with traffic, with trends, with the news, with your neighbors' lifestyle.
To keep up appearances is to maintain an outward show despite private difficulties.
Keeping up also means continuing without interruption: She's keeping up her exercise routine despite the injury.
- maintainingKeeping in condition
- continuingGoing on without stopping
- sustainingMaintaining over time
- managingDirecting or controlling something
- raceCompetition of speed
rush · preserving · treadmill · hamster wheel · resilience · burning out · conspicuous consumption · social climbing · professional development · FOMO · conformity · information overload · learning · peer pressure · matching · stamina · adaptation · following
- social pressurepeer pressure, conformity, expectations, fitting in, social acceptance
- herd behaviorherd mentality, bandwagon effect, conformism, peer pressure, following the crowd
- status anxietystatus anxiety, social comparison, comparison, envy, social climbing
- office lifecubicle, desk job, desk jobs, office job, full-time job
- ambitionaspire, ambition, aspiration, goal, strive
- celebrity gossippaparazzi, tabloid, gossip column, TMZ, scandal
keeping upfalling behind
lagging · dropping back · trailing · losing ground · falling back
keeping upgiving up
Choosing to stop trying
letting go · abandoning · stopping · quitting · neglecting
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