The phrase "and trying to exist" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is expressing their struggle or effort to maintain their presence or identity in a situation.
Example: "In a world full of challenges, I find myself lost and trying to exist amidst the chaos."
Alternatives: "and striving to survive" or "and attempting to endure".
The wonderful "Abouna," directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun and set in Chad, is about two young brothers deserted by their father and trying to exist peacefully in the same home with their mother.
I was lucky to have a community of survivors, other people trying to grapple with this inconceivable tragedy, and also go on with the business of living and being a college student, and trying to exist in the world.
The worst part about everything in school for me was that we were always told to talk to an adult or teacher but our teachers thought we were a problem and not just trying to exist the way we felt like it.
Departments at universities have their own cultures, Levine says, and students who are trying to exist in two different cultures usually wind up feeling like they don't fit in with either.
"I looked in that casket and said to myself 'here was a young man, just trying to exist' and so hopefully now with this our city can begin to heal and come together".
"Can we raise this money at the same time as trying to exist and raising an endowment for ourselves?" Lincoln Center has asked the design firm of Norman Foster -- who remodeled the Reichstag in Berlin and the Great Court at the British Museum -- to come up with initial designs for renovating Avery Fisher Hall.
And when that's taken from them, they're just trying to exist on their savings or what they can cobble together.
As Sony has wisely spotted, studios can achieve far more by linking arms together than by desperately trying to exist in splendid isolation.
It's really simple, Ron just trying to exist alongside Trager.
This prevents the horse from trying to exist before you are finished.
The song's lyrics pertain to the protagonist not believing that love exists and trying to live without it, mainly to avoid rejection, but eventually realizing that it does exist, describing the person as being their "only exception".
