Why do I only watch other people's adventures?

You watch because it works. The video gives you the feeling of having gone somewhere, without the cold, the wrong turn, or the risk of looking foolish. That is not a moral failing. It is a very good deal, and your brain took it. But here is the quiet assumption underneath: you are waiting for adventure to show up already big, already impressive, already worth filming. So the small, real, slightly awkward ones in front of you — the new bus route, the solo dinner, the odd hobby — don't count. You wait for the grand version and starve on the plain one. Adventure is not a size. It is a direction: toward the unknown instead of away from it. A ten-minute walk down a street you've never taken uses the exact same muscle as crossing a continent. Most people who seem to 'have adventures' just stopped waiting for permission to use the small ones.