It is generally accepted that life is the most valuable gift that a person receives, but looking at how some people use this gift, one can only wonder how unreasonably and irrationally they spend their lives, how much they do not value it.
Life is like a gift
Perhaps the first reason is precisely this: life is a gift, i.e. is given to a person just like that, not as a reward for some merits or suffering, but "for free." Of course, some religions claim that a person deserves his life and destiny as a result of previous earthly incarnations, and the quality of life and the initial status of an individual depend on how successfully he solved his life tasks in the past.
But not everyone adheres to such views. There are many people who are sure that the place, time and other circumstances of their birth are just a coincidence, which means that they do not owe anything to anyone for the miracle of their birth. Well, maybe for the parents, but they themselves made the decisions to have a child.
By the way, parents treat the life of their children much more carefully and more seriously than those of their own: they know exactly what price they had to pay for a child to be born, what they had to go through and what to endure in order to have a child. Based on this logic, "long-awaited" and long-awaited children are guarded much more reverently than those born without any special problems.
People themselves do not remember the twists and turns associated with their own conception, no birth pangs, or other difficulties associated with their own birth. The exception, perhaps, is made by people who initially have health problems, or who have faced a serious illness during their life. They have the opportunity to realize what a miracle it is to survive and live, therefore they often value their existence much more than healthy and successful representatives of the human species.
Fear of death
The second reason for the devaluation of one's own life, perhaps, is … the fear of death. At first glance, it sounds paradoxical, however, there is a certain logic in this. The fact is that a person is so afraid of death that he prefers not to think about it. Of course, he understands that someday he will die, but it is more pleasant and easier for him to imagine that this will happen very, very soon. And therefore, he subconsciously perceives himself as an immortal: he still has a huge amount of time ahead that can be spent as he pleases.
This can also explain the reluctance of some to think about their own health: it seems that there is always time to fix everything, and nothing fatal simply can happen. And if it does, then, of course, not with them.
It is people who have fully realized the finiteness of their life span and have accepted death as a natural result of their existence, begin to value life, strive to have time to do as many important and necessary things from their point of view as possible - after all, the end will surely come, and this can happen at any moment.
