Existence and Non-existence

 

Existence and Non-existence

 

In the garden of time, when philosophers take a walk, the most predominant topic that gets whispered in their minds is on existence and non-existence.

Many arguments and statements have been registered by the eternal minds, but still this very topic on existence and non-existence seems to have walked in time and reached us today and, most hopefully, will also journey into the future.

A person is given two sheets of paper and asked to write in one sheet all items that are in existence and in another sheet of paper all items that are not in existence, based on a prompt from someone and with reference to the immediate environment.

The person, based on the prompt, will list available items in the immediate environment in sheet of existence and list items not available in the immediate environment in the sheet of non-existence. Strangely, the items in the sheet of non-existence will be more.

If the reference frame is extended to the town where the person lives, then many items will shift from the sheet of non-existence to the sheet of existence. As the frame of reference is stretched, more and more items shift from sheet of non-existence to sheet of existence.

Those items beyond the experience of any person will stay in the sheet of non-existence with a potential of getting shifted to the sheet of existence based on experience and perception. Experience happens with age, and all items prompted by humans in time stays in one of the two sheets.  The fact is, all items survive in non-existence and only few items survive in existence, including the living humans.