Yes, it seems like surprise has to depend on your point of view. There’s an enormous difference between “someone somewhere won the lottery” and “I won the lotte

Yes, it seems like surprise has to depend on your point of view. There’s an enormous difference between “someone somewhere won the lottery” and “I won the lottery,” even if it’s describing the same event. It’s a question of how many other possibilities are considered similar to the one that happened. From a zoomed-out perspective, one win is as good as any another.