It is considered to be that life is the most valuable gift which is received by the person, but, looking at how some dispose of this gift, it is necessary only to be perplexed: how unreasonably and irrationally they spend the life as far as do not appreciate it.
Life as gift
Perhaps, the first reason in it: life – a gift, i.e. is given to the person just like that, not in an award for some merits or sufferings, and "for free of charge". Of course, some religions claim what the life and the fate of people deserves as a result of the previous terrestrial embodiments, both the quality of life, and the initial status of an individual depend on that, how successfully he solved the vital problems 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 – simply accidental combination of circumstances, so, they are obliged to nobody for a miracle of the birth. Well, unless to parents, but that made decisions to get the child.
By the way, parents treat life of the children much more carefully and more seriously, than those to own: they know for sure what price had to be paid that the child was born what it was necessary to pass through and what to endure that the child was born. Proceeding from this logic, the "gained" and long-awaited children are preserved much more tremblingly, than given rise without any problem. People do not remember the peripetias connected with own conception, either labor, or other difficulties interfaced to own birth. The exception is made, perhaps, by the people who initially have problems with health, or faced a serious disease during the life. They have an opportunity to realize what this miracle – to survive and live therefore often appreciate the existence much more, than healthy and successful members of the human species.
Fear of death
The second reason of depreciation of own life, perhaps, the fear of death is …. At first sight, sounds paradoxically, however, a certain logic in it is. The fact is that the person so is afraid of death that prefers not to think of it. Of course, he understands that he will sometime die, but it is more pleasant and easier for it to represent that there will be it still very much and very at a distant day. And therefore he subconsciously perceives himself as immortal: he has ahead still a huge amount of time which can be spent as will like. Same it is possible to explain also unwillingness of some to think of own health: it seems that there is always time that to correct everything, and nothing fatal can simply happen. And if it happens, then, of course, not to them. The people who fully realized an extremity of the vital term and who accepted death as a natural result of the existence begin to appreciate life, seek to manage to make as much as possible things, important and necessary from their point of view, – the end surely will come, and it can happen at any time.