Yes, living is more than existing. "Becoming one’s authentic self is living." That's the closing line of my essay, Are You Living or Merely Existing? https://medium.com/@marcus17043/are-you-living-or-merely-existing-614f982432a5, subtitled, "My thoughts on the Oscar Wilde quote: To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

As I hope my highlights demonstrated, I greatly appreciated your essay