It is curious that some initiation rituals, especially Eastern ones, represent the death and dissolution of the past, in order to then formalize the transformation of the initiate into a new being. On the one hand, one might question whether something like this is really possible. On the other hand, it is clear that not only is it possible, but in most cases, the ritual does nothing more than formalize something that has already happened. Largely due to 20th-century psychology, childhood is often given exaggerated and undue importance. In truth, it is not uncommon for adults to be unable to remember their childhood, except for a few isolated, vague, and irrelevant moments. For others, childhood means little—despite what some one-note psychologists might say—and represents nothing more than a strange period, with rememberable experiences, but with which they cannot establish identification. There is, however, a day when something happens, an unforgettable day, after which one is no longer the same: sometimes, it is from that day on that one truly begins to live.