People often say stuff like, "Life is a gift," or "I'm lucky to be alive." Most people seem to think that life is mostly good, even if they are in an objectively bad situation. Do humans have a positivity bias?

People also seem to be biased when predicting their own and people close to them's futures. They only assume that good things will happen to them. People never seem to predict that they will get cancer and die a horrible death, for example, even though a lot of people do.

It's to the point that if someone doesn't think that life is good, they are seen as abnormal or needing to be fixed. Even if they are in an objectively bad situation (like they are poor or disabled) and are just being realistic about their circumstances.

Personally, I think that life is objectively neutral. It could be good or bad depending on how good or bad your life is. A lot of it is up to chance.

Why is being alive inherently better than never having been born? If you were never born (or if you were born as an animal or something), you would have nothing to compare it to, so you wouldn't know what you're missing out on (good or bad). That's what I don't understand.

I'm not trying to be edgy or anything btw.

Edit: I just realized that I misspelled the title lol.