Idiomatic Saying - A Walk Of Life

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This is more puzzling to me than most idiomatic sayings. It refers to the way someone lives their life. A street-sweeper may dream of professional football as a different walk of life, with greater affluence and a richer circle of friends, champagne instead of beer, celebrity status, etc. The phrase assumes a life can be summarized as a singular path. My life and lifestyle crosses many walks, the writer’s way, the working (and often unemployed) class guy from a semi-middle-class family background way, the drinker, the thinker, the traveller, the performance poet. My life isn’t always a walk. Sometimes it is a run or a sit down in a static resting position. We tend to see walks of life as idealized – the fun bits, the excitement and glamour. No one wants the walk of life of the desperately hungry, or lonely & poverty stricken. Youtube – Walk Of Life by Dire Straits – a band clearly not in Dire Straits as a way or walk of life at all. Arthur Chappell