Tracker and the Search for Connection
The moral case for looking for a connection with anyone you can find.
Author’s Note: Just a reminder that tomorrow there will be a Thanksgiving piece tomorrow and then a Black Friday sale for people upgrading to paid subscriptions.
Most of us are searching for some kind of connection.
We want someone to feel close to, even if it's just for a few moments. This connection we're looking for is supposed to make us feel less alone. For at least a short time, we can be comforted by the fact that there's another person with us. If we're lucky, we connect in a way that keeps them around for longer than a moment and we can feel connected as long as they're around. Sadly, these connections don't just happen to everyone whenever we want them to. More often than not we have to go searching for them and hope that they need you as much as you need them. In order to keep this connection with someone you have to be willing to stick around and get to know them over the long term. Otherwise it becomes pointless and people become resentful. They won't want to connect with you the next time they see you.
Thankfully for anyone looking for a short term connection, there's always someone else you can connect with out there. So long as you keep moving you will never run out of new people to connect with. Life is too short for anyone to meet everyone who exists in the world. Still, the longer you keep moving the more lonely you become. Even if there are some people who would prefer to live that way if they could, in the end they will connect with someone. It's better to do the kind of work which allows you to connect for short moments of time. Maybe something that lets you help other people along the way. At least if you're trying to help people, you will leave a good impression with those you're helping for this moment.
There will always be someone out there who needs help in the moment. If you find a way to connect to people who need help, you can form a deeper connection than you would in the more selfish ways so many people can be. By approaching the situation from the outside, you can end up in a much better place than if you're too emotionally invested in how things turn out. Largely because the deeper the connection you make with someone the less focused and more emotional you can be. It can lead to you missing things. This doesn't happen when you only connect for a short time.
Tracker is very much about what it means to try and find a connection with someone. Colter Shaw, as played fantastically by Justin Hartley, is someone who is always looking for connection to someone. He lives most of his life alone and away from pretty much everyone else. This makes him a lonely person. Yet at the same time it makes him really good at making a connection with other people. Mainly, the people who he helps track down as part of his job. He might not know them very well but at a minimum he can connect with who they are and why they're missing.
Before moving on to search for a new connection.
Do yourself a favour and explore the search for connection by checking out Tracker as soon as you can.
Tracker is available on Paramount Plus and Amazon as well as some episodes are on CTV in Canada.
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