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What does it mean to exist? Is it a state of mind, something abstract, is it an idea, a simple thought? Or is it a state of being, is it physical? When thinking of existence, I was taught that there were two places, two existences. Existence and Non-existence. A life and a death. One is either alive or simply not. It was always presented as two; existence is a duality. I learned from Catholicism that you are born, you live and die. Afterward in death, you were taken somewhere, to a divine or not, to a different form of existence, not having life but still being. No longer alive, yet still existing in a different form. To better illustrate, think of the existence of a God. Religion clearly explains that he exists: not here, but somewhere in a distant realm, somewhere not able to be reached physically but spiritually, metaphysically, in an abstract form. Agree to his existence and by default to the idea that we are perhaps eternal, not in the sense that associates any connotation or mortal doctrined thought, but in the idea that we never really cease to exist. To acknowledge existence is to also acknowledge non-existence. When we pass we continue, yet in a different form. The idea then, that life is a dream and death is a lie, becomes true. E. Galeano, in an anthology of Latin American myth, passes this on to us: “[The man and the woman] will never stop being born, because death is a lie.”