Is Life Truly A Precious Gift?

Some may see the images above and say that im showing a very negative spin on life, but the question has to be posed.

Is Life Truly A Precious Gift?

Now typically, a gift is something you would want to recieve, but i know personally with all the hardships that i've been through, i surely didn't ask for this gift. Like some gifts, i appreciate it at times and other times i wish i could exchange it for something better. Its hard not to feel this way sometimes when dealing constantly with adversity.

There is so much poverty, pain & suffering, natural disasters that can take life away from you just as quickly as the nut your dad bust to help conceive you. You can be walking down the block and an air conditioner falls right on your head. You can go at any time. So with that being said, if your life is horrid from beginning to end, how can you appreciate it? Its hard for people to truly look towards the afterlife because of the uncertanty of it all. We all have our different views and opinions on that subject as well. Many people that i know tell me when im down and out that god has a place for me in heaven. How can those people be so certain? If the unknown is truly that, how can anyone know where they will end up? Its all about faith i suppose and i can respect that, but can you truly knock someone that has abandoned their faith when it just seems to get rougher and rougher?

We all go through different things in life, but if i were to say that i dont appreciate this gift called life, can i still go to heaven? I mean why not if i dont wanna be here in the first place.

Right now there is a person in a rural part of the world who has witnessed their family murdered, hasn't eaten for weeks and they are out on the street or in the woods somewhere suffering. Not to intentionally sound blasphemous, but that doesn't seem like a test of faith, seems more like a punishment for living.

But that could just be my feelings towards things. It usually is.