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When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet’s words, “To be, or not to be? That is the question—” (Hamlet, III, i, 57), he was expressing every individual’s mind, contemplating the admiration of the ideal perfect life that we call a utopia. However, what happens in reality is what French says, “Que sera, sera!” which stands in English for “Whatever will be, will be”; thus, destiny or chance is what determines our future, our being, and our hypothetical seventh heaven. Besides, when the French rational thinker, René Descartes said, “Cogito ergo sum” in Latin, he wanted our being merely without the future’s determination, as if we are machines who are born to think. Therefore, we conclude and start from the same loop’s cycle, by inquiring: What is the state of being? Is be a verb or a noun? And mainly, why to be?