How do I handle the weight of decisions that affect people I'll never meet?

The rules you make reach into lives you can't foresee, and the moral weight of that is starting to land on you. That's not a problem to solve; it's a maturity arriving. The weight belongs to the work, and feeling it means you're doing the work honestly. You'll never trace every consequence, the reach is too wide, the future too dim. But you can bring care, evidence, and conscience to each choice, and you can stay humble about what you can't see. That combination is what a good steward of power owes the people under it. When a decision feels abstract, slow down and picture one life it will touch. Not a statistic, a person. Let that keep the weight real and your judgment honest. That's how you carry it well instead of letting it go numb.