Exist.

You do not exist. At least until you are beneficial to another person, opposing another person, or acknowledged by society or a higher authority. No one exists when they are born.
People never take notice of other passerby. They are both strangers to each other, alien. Nothing is known between them, nothing known from them. They do not exist to each other. The only people that exist are people that are known. Friends, family, famous celebrities, possibly a classmate only whose name is known. We are all ghosts, never truly seen clearly by those who do not believe in us. Abraham Lincoln, he would not be a nationally, or possibly internationally, known figure, would he not have been acknowledged by the American society for his deeds. Your friends, why are you friends with them in the first place? Because they benefit you in some fashion, either to support you, make you feel accepted, maybe even to make you feel better about yourself. They exist because they are useful. Your enemies, rivals, jerks you hate, they exist to you because they oppose you in some fashion, even if they aren't actively aggressive to you know, they probably were in the past. You know them, so in that case they exist.
Most people want to be seen, they want to exist. They try to become accepted into society, most likely to make society acknowledge them as a great person. If that doesn't work, they try to become useful to society, becoming friendly with anyone, to help people out. The easiest way to exist, is to become the opposition. Rejecting everyone, while trying to prove themselves right. Lashing out to make people see them, not as ghosts, but as humans. Is this existence?
~C.