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People chronically underestimate nature.
They see some beautiful desert, a peaceful sea, or an idyllic mountain and assume that nothing so pretty could possible hurt you.
Forget about cute animals that are actually dangerous, any of the above can secretly store so much energy that humans are completely insignificant gnats, in comparison.
We've become spoiled by how much we've bent nature to accommodate us. We're more fragile than we think.
I went on "a hike" with "a friend" (big quotation marks here because they're no longer a friend obviously) that quickly turned into an unanchored free climb with no way back down with one another friend who was baked.
Our chance of significant injury or death was 90% at 2200 feet up, and we managed to get out of the climb and back down without so much as a twisted ankle. A literal fucking miracle.
When we went for food later, all I could talk about was how close we were to death, and how I'm never doing that again, but they seemed completely unfazed.
My best assumption? Brain worms.
Toxoplasmosis Gondii destroys the fear impulse in humans and causes them to engage in increasingly risky behavior, until it eventually kills them. It's how the parasite procreates in mice (leading them to predators and wild cats).
Some people are just very bad at risk assessment. I'm glad you survived!
Others are bad at risk assessment by over estimating risk. They are boring buzzkills.
Much better to overestimate risk than underestimate it when the risk is death!
But how worth living is a life overly guarded?
There's a big range between "never takes any risks" and "takes stupid pointless risks."
Is "not wearing flip flops in death valley" or "not climbing 200ft up a tree really OVERLY guarded, though? 🤔