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Manorotsky, I am not saying this applies to you... I am just giving input on what my life has been like.
I have had times that I either didn't care much about life or wasn't having getting any joy from it. When I examine myself when i feel this way, I realize that I am living for myself... becoming too self centered. In my experience, when you think about the universe outside yourself (nature, God, family, friends) and try to serve them... the joy for living returns.
Once again, not implying that this is your problem... just that this is something i've had to deal with and that it has brought me happiness.
On the same subject, but from another viewpoint...
From a purely philosophical standpoint, perhaps the will to live has an inverse relationship to the ease of survival. Maybe living like kings (like many of us do in the West, relatively speaking) has depressed the "wild" parts of our nature. Maybe we are too far removed from the survival drive that allowed our species to endure tougher eras. We may be animals who are too confined in our self-made cages to care about life anymore.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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