And even when we’re having a painful experience that is not our fault—perhaps we’ve been laid off our job because of an economic downturn, for instance—we often irrationally feel that the rest of the world is happily employed while it’s only me sitting at home binge-watching TV all day. Or when we become ill, it feels like sickness is an unusual, abnormal state (like the dying eighty-four-year-old man whose final words were “why me?”).
