IN THE CROSSHAIRS

 

I often feel targeted by the powers that be, both terrestrial and emotional, as Wilhelm Reich would have put it: the Emotional Plague. I may have a persecution complex, I admit. I feel watched, stalked, haunted. In Spanish, I can say que estoy en el punto de mira de algo o alguien, and I feel there is a pending attack in the shadows, lurking. The expression that springs to my mind in English is to be in the crosshairs of someone. I am being melodramatic, of course, but both expressions: estar en el punto de mira and to be in the crosshairs are worth being a bit Lovecraft-like, to impress the reader. Then: Estar en el punto de mira de algo o alguien, to be in the crosshairs of something or someone. 

— “Snipers have the building covered. You are in the crosshairs right now.” Criminal Minds, 2011. || “… the whole West, including Germany, is in the crosshairs of international terrorism.” The Christian Science Monitor, 11/15/2015. US. 

— “Ambos, pues, estaban en el punto de mira de cualquiera que plantease la necesidada de…” La Vanguardia, 02/07/1995. Esp.