To be or not to be

I wake up, I touch my arms, they're mine, I look at my legs, I recognize my body; I ask myself, am I that set of parts, that body? No, that's the physical person that moves through the house like an automaton. I am more than that, I am a thinking being, I have feelings, I exist for myself and for others.

When this second part ceases to exist, only the body remains. When I make decisions I exist, I am, but if I act automatically, I stop being and become merely a body. Faced with complex situations, it becomes very hard to be, since we carry the responsibility for our actions. In these circumstances we feel like Hamlet and say «to be or not to be, that is the question».