Watch

A watch could be defined as a small clock one can wear on the wrist. Watch can mean to look at something that is about to happen or to be vigilant about a possible happening, as in to watch for a ship. To be on watch is to have accepted a job to be vigilant in the security and safety of a building or other item, even a painting in a museum, etc. ‘Watch this’ is an invitation to see what is about to happen

When you say, ‘watch your head’, you mean take care not to injure my head. It means the same as ‘watch out’ but specifically watch out for my head. A bird watcher is one who observes birds. I can watch for someone or something such as standing on the corner watching all the girls go by. To keep watch is to remain alert and focused on something, as i for the purpose of religious observance

To watch something is more than to just look at it. If I am entrusted to watch the baby and only just look I would not be a very good baby sitter. The look only position might even cause some hurt. Along with the looking is seeing and acting. If I look but do not see, well, what’s the point. Similarly, if I look/see but do not hear, could be a disaster of a result. What about sensing, using my intuition?

Adding the use of my intuition to watching can be a game changer. To watch with the five senses is a huge upgrade to watching just with the eyes. Adding my intuition (spidey sense) brings a whole new dimension. We can ‘feel it’ when a very angry person enters the room. That is the intuition level of sensing. We all have it. Most of us discount it or at least do not deliberately engage it. Why not?

Interesting that the Watchtower is neither a watch, nor a tower. It is a religious magazine. The watch commander is one charged with supervision during a watch consisting of a group of people, or instruments, that are on watch in order to watch for something. Gets pretty swirly, don’t you think. Watch out means to be careful, do I say watch out for how a person is using the word ‘watch’.