Why do others only post a message on social media, yet you feel fear? Because the brain is naturally more sensitive to danger than to calm. Those extreme events, crisis warnings, and failure cases are more likely to draw attention than countless ordinary days of peace and safety. Over time, people begin to treat low-probability events as high-probability risks, turn other people’s experiences into their own future, and transform things that haven’t happened yet into their pain—early. Ultimately, what drains people isn’t the real risks in the world, but the risk fantasies in their minds that are constantly magnified. The pain in reality is often limited, while the pain in imagination can be repeated endlessly. For many people, the greatest burden in a lifetime isn’t the blows fate delivers, but the constant costs paid in advance for disasters that never occurred.