(252) Surveillance says: I am watching you so I can catch you.
Witness says: I am watching you so nothing is lost.
Surveillance diminishes. It makes you smaller, more cautious, more afraid. It turns every action into a calculation: will I be caught?
Witness enlarges. It makes every action matter. Not because punishment awaits, but because someone is holding the record. Because your life is not vanishing into the void, unnoticed, unremembered. Because every choice — even the small ones, especially the small ones — is part of a story that is being kept.