It feels inauthentic because at first you don't actually care about some random person, but if a series of events happened, you would actually care about such-a

It feels inauthentic because at first you don't actually care about some random person, but if a series of events happened, you would actually care about such-and-such a person. How can we have a series of events happen in a normal, unforced way that would take us from one state to the other?