Whether It's Overt or Covert, BE WATCHFUL

Whether It's Overt or Covert, BE WATCHFUL

This one-liner that got to catch my attention was that Netflix The Blacklist movie wherein American actor James Spader plays as a master criminal turned confidential informant of the FBI wherein he aptly stated that 'THINGS ARE SO CROOKED LIKE THE CORSICAN HIGHWAY'.  What this picture tells us is that indeed, the Corsican Highway is so obviously crooked, period.

So what's in it for us today?  It is to look back into our life when things end up either as OVERT or COVERT.  Either way, we will be likely threading in dangerous waters so it behooves for us to BE WATCHFUL but before diving into that dissection, let's agree how they are defined.  And I'd quote Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character, Sherlock Holmes: "IT'S SO OVERT. IT'S COVERT".

Unfortunately in life, we were all schooled to look at things as either BLACK or WHITE.  And that old school of thought NEVER prepared us to BE WATCHFUL when BLACK seems WHITE or vice versa.  When we swing over to our zillion personalities across the global village, it is no less mind boggling.  How can we relate to somewhere who looks PURE but may NOT be?  How can we forge a deal with an entrepreneur who seems STRAIGHT but seems SHREWD?  Or let's get into gender itself.  How do we handle someone who tends to consistently project a gender which is nothing less than a farce given his/her innermost gender colors?  How can we FANCY a partner/spouse who seems RESPONSIBLE but in real life, he's damn IRRESPONSIBLE?

Either way, to quote James Spader, when things get so CROOKED LIKE THE CORSICAN HIGHWAY... that's the point we got to BE WATCHFUL down to the last detail which includes every facial expression and body language.  Many times we get too familiar with the 4 D's namely getting DECEIVED, DEFRAUDED, DOUBLE-CROSSED or DUPED all because things became so OVERT, whew. 

To cut the crap, what am I angling here?  Know someone DEEP ENOUGH, way beyond his superficial ways.  Deep dive into a person's innermost recesses and figure out what really drives him/her to be TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. Just DON'T take things at FACE VALUE.  Look for the INTRINSIC VALUE because that will likely lead you to the REAL him/her, down to his/her real, genuine and purposeful intent no less.  When things become so OVERT such that it becomes COVERT, BE WATCHFUL.  Get to know the REAL fish out there❗❗❗