We actually are the main character. We can only perceive the universe through the data our senses collect. We are each a ghost trapped in a meat sack, standing on a rock, hurtling through the universe. You are wholly incapable of seeing the universe through someone else's perspective. The best you can do is analyze the data you've collected through your own senses and try to guess what someone else is experiencing.

So one of my favorite books is Ender's Game (fuck the author though). Which makes Ender the main charecter. But another one by him that I also really love is Ender's shadow. Where it takes on of the lesser characters and makes them the main charecter.

So, we all are the main character. Just depends on the perspective.

It's probably a feature that benefits the species.

It doesn't have to benefit the individual sheeples.

I haven't died yet.

Therefore: I AM IMMORTAL!

Brb, I'm gonna sit under a tent that says "PROVE ME WRONG" so I can debate people.

This hit me right in the face 2 years ago when my brother died running an Ironman. Not long after, my best friend died of stage 4 cancer. I'm about to turn 50, and im kinda freaking out....

My username comes from "pemptagonist," the fifth most important character in a play (after protagonist, deuteragonist, etc). I thought it was funny, but maybe there's something in that because I don't trust my luck one bit.

I think that's how human brains be. We're already notoriously bad at correctly accounting for low-risk events (eg the lottery). Plus being constantly aware of the full myriad of threats we face would probably be debilitating.

If you haven't had or seen a kind of accident your brain probably sees no compelling reason to account for it. My partner was lax about flu shots until she started working at a funeral home and saw how many people of all ages die of the flu. Now it's a threat she has the awareness to accurately account for.

"we all"??? you clearly seem to lol

Some people are more reckless and others more fearful. Both can be productive, but it's wiser (as it usually is), to pull yourself towards the middle.

The truth is, we all really do go through life thinking that the bad shit happens to someone else until it happens to us.

So, it may seem like tragedies happen just to other people.

Of course you are the protagonist of your life, but the chances are, you’re still “other people” to other people.

I mean when you die your story IS over.

What about when you really do have plot armor? When you can jump off a building and land flat footed, but your efforts never give you more then you need?

The difference between main character syndrome and plot armor is that people with plot armor aren't the writers of their story