there is always someone watching

16.05.2026

S: Do you know the secret of this life? There is always someone watching.

A: What do you mean? Of course there isn’t.

S: Forget about social media and the surveillance that these status conscious kids put onto each other. Forget about the social pressure they put on fashion and slang and cars and toys and so on. Even if you avoid all of that stuff, there is always someone watching. In the old days, it used to be the parents but also the aunties. They would be spying on the kids, nosing around and gossiping. Do you think that has disappeared? There will be someone there, a friend, family, an acquaintance, a work colleague, whatever it is. They will be spying on you. They’ll be trying to work out what is going on in your life, talking about you behind your back, trying to keep tabs on you.

A: If that were the case, why would that be the case? Why are they breaking a sweat on other people?

S: Idle curiosity for the weak-minded. And that is why I don’t mind writing about my thoughts. Because let’s let these spies have it. Let them have the honest opinion instead of the fake lip service they have and their not so subtle strategies of dog whistle racism as well as every other ism in the book that they are guilty of because they are oppressors and bullies.

A: No one is watching you.

S: That’s where you are wrong. There is a whole army watching me. Waiting for a false step. Waiting to drink my blood. But let them watch. And let them envy my life. No matter how much they tried to keep me down, I am up there. I am a genius. They will study me, my art, my writing, my thoughts and my life. And however much they study me, they will never understand. Because to understand the gifted, you have to be gifted yourself.

A: So this is why you are always performing and bragging. You believe that everyone else is watching you.

S: The audience want to stare at a hero. And who else is the hero but I?

A: They stare also at the villain. How do you know that you are not one?

S: It is time that decides heroism or villainy. And this is my time. The time of The Tiger.