Existing is pretty much like a chair. It exists for others as it does nothing of it's own accord. Living is people who sit on chairs and make them. They do things of their own accord.

Living is experiencing interacting growing changing breathing moving I've also heard it said the only sign of life is growth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abwqTcRjgiY ..................................................... See this kid GETTING TO play drums? She's 14. Those are her acoustic drums. So is the very costly set of mics, and the picture-in-picture video cam and whatever computer she obviously has (some kids have to go to the library to use a computer).....Also she has a ton of other exciting music equipment you cant see in this particular video. She has not just an electric guitar, but a nice brand new GIBSON, and that means thousands more were spent for an accompanying pedalboard and amp and wires. She also has a bass guitar, same setup. AND a piano. All in all, at an age when she has neither worked yet nor been expected to, she possesses $80,000 worth of music gear, and it's all new, and she is free to play it OUT LOUD all day. How nice. THAT is "living". That is GETTING TO live. ...As it turns out she is musically gifted, so when she becomes an adult, she'll have a wonderful career and life. MEANWHILE someone else, equally (or more) talented could be found for an example of someone brought up with NO financial input to start them off into life. So THAT person doesnt get to be themself, doesnt get to live, THAT PERSON works at Burger King and has to go to AA and live in HELL. Is that my example of "existing"? No, I wouldnt even call THAT existing. Just:NOT LIVING. Never GETTING TO. .............Bottom line: Parents ARE responsible to fund their kids into life. And when they do so amply, even someone with dubious talent can have a career and be smiling and happy all the way along, no difficulty, no tragedy, no sorrow, no misfortune. Just "here!", and "here!" and "here! ........But when mom and dad are idiots who shouldn't even have been allowed to spawn, you can be Bee-f*cking-thoven and you will rot. ............ So the difference is about MONEY, and that's all. I've seen idiots with no talent at all have careers, and act all "I worked hard for what i got!" (in the face of those with shit). But they got it because Mumsy and Dadsy had money to fund them a start. Thats all. You haven got money? DONT HAVE KIDS. Because they wont be interested in simpleton sayings like "money cant buy happiness" (Yes. It can and it does, and in fact without it, your kids will have garbage for a life.