Button Sunday

Some thoughts on secrets:

• In a favorite novel I read when I was young, a favorite character told her niece, “Never tell anyone everything.” I have always followed this advice.
• Though I have a tendency to share information about friends with other friends, I can and do keep secrets if I am asked.
• There are some secrets I will not keep, but I always warn people what these are if I sense they are about to confide something to me.
• Sometimes the secrets sent to postsecret.com make me cry.
• I have sent three secrets to postsecret.com. I don’t think they were published, and they weren’t all that startling anyway.
• There are secrets I wish I’d never shared with certain people. Remembering that helps me better keep secrets now.
• I think a person with no secrets may have lived a dull life. Go get yourself some secrets! Not all secrets are bad, after all.
• Right or wrong, I think there’s a reasonable expectation that most people will tell their spouse/partner/significant other most of the secrets they are told.
• I have been stunned by secrets that came to light after someone died.
• If you write your deepest secrets down, you’re begging for trouble.
• Some people I trust with secrets because I know they won’t tell. Others I trust with secrets because I know they’ll forget them.
• People are not as bad as their secrets make them think they are. They’re just human.

Thanks, Marika, for another post-inspiring button.