Eternal life

Question that I have had: 

Why is there a heaven. Another way of putting it is, what is the point of eternal life. My understanding when I was growing up is that if you live a good life, that is heaven. If you live a bad life, that is hell. 

I asked many professing Christians, tell me why is there heaven? What is the point? I never got an answer from them that satisfied me. Eventually I sought long and hard enough that I met Jesus. I love Jesus. There is no one or nothing better. In the process I received eternal life. I see it as living with Jesus. Heaven is a location in my eternal life when and where I pass from here to hereafter. But the being with Jesus is the point. It is the whole of it. Eternal life is being with Jesus now and forever.