The Watchful Eye and Living With Suspicion
The moral case for trying to deal with suspicious people around you.
We all feel like we’re being watched some times.
That strange feeling we aren’t alone even when we know we are. Seeing someone looking across the street and thinking they’re looking at you. In reality, you can’t possibly know they’re actually watching you but some part of you has trouble believing it’s true. There’s no way to know what is in the head of the person who is staring in your direction. For all you know, they don’t have any interest in you at all. They might be looking at something behind you or just staring off into space. It might not have anything to do with you. But some part of you can’t help but worry.
You have this need to know if something is out to get you. Especially if it might hurt you. This need to know what is out there is so much a part of you that a real threat doesn’t have to be there for you to worry. All you have to do is suspect that it might be there and it will nag at you. Bug you enough that you can almost feel it on your skin or underneath it. A feeling like that is almost impossible to get rid of. Unless you actually are being watched and you discover why, it’s not something you can deal with easily.
If you live like this for too long though, your suspicions will just continue to grow. Everywhere you go and every person you meet could be the kind of person who is watching you. Not being able to trust anyone because they’re all against you in some way. Or at least you feel as if it is, whether the people you meet are entirely trustworthy. Which is harder and harder to come by as you see people around you as potential threats. You will end up becoming more and more uncertain about what is and isn’t going to happen around you. Until it becomes the only thing you can think about. So you have to get rid of it somehow.
The Watchful Eye is very much about what you do when suspicions go too far. Elena Santos, as played by Mariel Molino, is constantly looking over her shoulder for people who want to hurt her. Partly because of what she’s up to but also because the people she spends time with are doing a lot of strange things. She can’t ever be certain that those around her have good intentions. Especially because if she assumes good intentions in others, they might discover what she is up to and potentially get in her way. Or they could be after what she wants too, which means they could be lying to her and keeping it from her. They keep things from her and some part of her needs to know why.
But finding out comes with its own problems.
Do yourself a favour and explore the problem of living with suspicion by checking out The Watchful Eye as soon as you can.
The Watchful Eye is available on Apple TV Plus as well as Amazon.
Pronoia, not paranoia, is the way to go, to be happier in life.
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