What else can you do?

 Being blessed with the power to observe is so underrated. You see things for much more than what they are or appear to be. Sometimes a little too much, where you end up telling yourself that it's a product of your overthinking tendencies. The interesting thing about overthinking is that it is often looked upon as a curse, when in reality it's a tool for its user. Alan Watts once said, "A person who thinks all the time, has nothing to think about thoughts. So he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions" which, for the most part always seems true because the voices get too loud sometimes and given the random, unrelenting nature of life, we tend to hush ourselves and push to live in the present.

But what if you're right? What if you could see it coming from a mile away? What if you knew all along that the danger was imminent and you still couldn't warn anyone about it? So you theorise and make it a point to keep your distance. Observe all that you can and everything gets clearer with each passing day. The key part is to keep your cover because if that gets blown, everything falls apart. Especially, if you're a known overthinker, your theories are just going to be dismissed as episodes of paranoia. And there comes the other factor, the danger in itself. Its magnitude and the way it plants itself can't be understated. It can feel so comfortable to the victim to be in the immediate vicinity of it all, blissfully unaware of what is happening. What makes it worse is, they will never listen to reason, no matter how hard you try and you'll just end up villifying yourself. The flip side to this coin is, you're wrong. Your theories are absurd and there's no danger other than the one you conjured up in your head. 

It's such a risk, this whole mess. On one hand you're so desperate to protect the one you love but the challenges that stand in your way are sometimes hard to anticipate. I guess the only way to be, is honest. They say prevention is better than cure but sometimes, all you can do is handle the aftermath.

You're human too, what else can you do?