Is life hard?

I guess everybody has to answer that for themselves.  But I can say that I don't have your perspective on the balance of things.

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Hippopotamus

So there was a 'graham brain' floating around space personally experiencing not being alive for billions of years before becoming incarnate in flesh and being deprived of things that didn't exist yet? How interesting. 

Oh look, you quoted my post but responded to something I didn't say. How interesting.

When I asked you what experience you had with the alternative (meaning non-existence), you replied "About thirteen and a half billion years worth, give or take."

I truly don't find it to be.

Moments can be bleak.  But life itself is not.

Ok, and moving on, my next response was a direct challenge to that claim, because I was asking you with what cognitive apparatus you were able to experience the billions of years of non-existence in order to make a comparison between that and living. To state that you prefer life means that you must have experienced the alternative, or at least be able to imagine what it must be like (but therein lies the rub, because non-existence is like nothing that you can imagine, because will never observe the state of your own non-existence).

Interesting, my schedule is nearly identical, but I suggest three edits and the quality of your life will improve by over 14%, guaranteed. Eight hours of sleep is overrated; go with six.  It's entirely possible to get ready for work in half an hour instead of two.  Now you have 3.5 extra hours to work with, which now means your leisure time nearly duplicates your work time.  The eight hours at work and two hours driving?  Hey, I feel ya there.  As for my third edit, I suggest you not watch shitty sitcoms.  Maybe not any sitcoms.  Instead, mix your 7.5 hours up into different things.  Cook for an hour, exercise for 30 minutes, read something fun for 30 minutes, read something with the explicit intent of learning for 30 minutes, socialize with someone for two hours and you will still have three hours to watch a good movie and a shitty sitcom if that's your thing.  But whatever you do, don't do the same thing all the time.

Or, you just prefer what you're doing/experiencing to not doing/experiencing it.  Especially since you'll be not doing/not experiencing it regardless soon enough.  

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Harvard Professor Steven Pinker on Why We Refuse to See the Bright Side, Even Though We Should

That applies only when you're comparing 2 different scenarios in which you are alive. For example, I would prefer to go on holiday in the summer than stay at home, because if I do nothing and stay at home, I will be deprived of the things that I might enjoy on the holiday, such as better weather and beautiful scenery. But if it came to having a preference between going on holiday this summer and being dead, I can't say that the holiday would be preferable, because I would be relieved of my need for the holiday or for anything else that I do to try and ward off boredom.