SShhhhh....can you keep a secret?

@wheel416 (1019)
Canada
December 15, 2008 1:08pm CST
Are you a good friend, in that someone can tell you anything and you are able to keep their secrets? No matter how a juicy or outragous a revelation may be. For me personally, honesty and integrity are the top of the list of must haves in a friend! If you lied to me or somehow betrayed me I will have a hard time learning to trust you again. My friends know this, and I know with almost a certainty that they are not likely to reveal my confidences unless they believe that I'm truly in trouble and are trying to help. Are you a person that others go to to share their problems? Do people confide secrets in you because they know you will never utter a word to another person? Would you under any circumstances break a friends confidence once you had already promised not to? Has anyone else done this to you? How did you feel, when a person shared your secrets with another?
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25 responses
• Philippines
16 Dec 08
honesty and and trust are the two most important ingredients of a lasting friendship. once a friend told you that what she is telling is confidential as a friend we should remain faithful by keeping it confidential until the time comes that she herself will allow that secret to be revealed. if a friend revealed a secret to another friend that is cheating with gossiping. i am pretty sure that no one likes to have a cheater and a gossiper friend.
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@SViswan (12051)
• India
16 Dec 08
I can be trusted and can keep a secret and my friends do know that. The only problem is that once a secret is told to me, I have to be very careful that it doesn't slip out somewhere in the matter of conversation....and it will always be on my mind. That is a lot of tension for me especially when I know it's a secret and I need to be VERY careful. None of my friends have broken my confidence yet. But I'd be very hurt if they did.
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@schulzie (4061)
• United States
16 Dec 08
Yes, I can keep secrets very well. As a matter of fact people come to me to ask advice or to confide in. And they know that I will not tell anyone their secrets either. Sometimes it is hard to do, but I do do it. If someone were to tell a secret of mine that I had told them then I would find it hard to ever trust them again. Have a nice day and happy myLotting!!!
@cbreeze (1205)
• United States
16 Dec 08
I think I'm excellent at keeping people's confidence. It doesn't matter to me whether it is a casual acquaintance or a best friend. If someone asks me not to tell, then I don't. Unless like you stated it is REALLY in the person's best interest for someone else to be aware.
@sudalunts (5523)
• United States
17 Dec 08
My mind is bursting with so many secrets. I am the one that everyone comes to and say "DO NOT TELL ANYONE" I believe in confidentiality, therefore I will not divulge anything said to me, that someone does not want repeated. I am not that fortunate, seems whenever I tell someone something in secret, they go behide my back and repeat it. I got in big trouble one time at work, because my best friend repeated something I told her, I learned my lesson after that, I do not tell anyone anything that I do not want repeated anymore.
• India
16 Dec 08
at anycase i wont relveal the secreates my friends.thats why many of my friends will say there secrates to me and share there feelings.i feel very proud of my character and i want to continue like this.ofcourse if i break the friendship with any person then i forget about him and i just ignore him and his secrates but i dont reveal them because thats not my character
@ngty69 (971)
• India
16 Dec 08
Well, my friends do trust me. And they do share their secrets with me. It makes them feel relieved of a burden on their chest. With that I give them a soothing feeling. Unless its a do or die situation I never reveal anybody's secrets. So you can really trust me if you want to. Hope to read your reply soon. Thanks Bye....
• India
16 Dec 08
no, i can't kept the secrets secret:D but my friends don't know this... they tell their secrets believing me but i reveal them to other friends whom i believe and ofcourse i will tell all my secrets to everyone and that no more becomes a secret and causes me problems :(
• United States
16 Dec 08
I'm not sure why people confide in me.. but I suppose they know that they can trust me to never betray their trust... at least I hope that they know. I never tell other people's secrets (that is sooo wrong!), I take it rather seriously when someone trusts me enough to confide in me. I have trust issues and hate when someone lies to me, in so much that, once that trust is broken.. it's over. I would never want to hurt anyone like that.
• Australia
16 Dec 08
I love secrets sometimes they kill me and sometimes they are easy to keep. I have a very distinctive face and friends who know me well will know if i know something funny or embarrassing about someone else from the look on my face. I do try really hard to keep secrets although when i was younger i spilled a few... whopps! HE HE anyway if i have to tell someone i normally tell someone who doesn't know the peopleit gets it off your chest you can have a giggle and noone gets hurt providing this person you tell can keep a secret.....
• Philippines
16 Dec 08
keeping a secret is a respect. so, if you want your friend to respect you, give your friend a valuable honor to keep with you forever either it's a memory or for a life time..
@Frederick42 (2024)
• Canada
16 Dec 08
I have kept many secrets in my life. Yes, friends can definitely confide in me. I have never betrayed any friend and I would never even imagine betraying a friend.
• United States
16 Dec 08
Secrets are the spice of life! I can keep any secret, no matter what it is. I feel very important if someone wants to tell me a secret too. Most of my friends can tell me whatever they want and I won't tell anyone. I used to accidently let some people hear secrets of other people when I was younger but I can keep a secret now.
@longgee (137)
• Philippines
16 Dec 08
I may not be good at sharing my secrets but i do know how to listen and keep secrets of others. I know a lot of stuffs about my friends that they are not telling to anyone. The probably share it to me because they know that i don't care. Even if they tell it to me, knowing that it don't matter to me, i will never say it to others. I'm a good listener because when they talk, i really listen. When they need an advice and I'm being asked, i give them the best advice that i can give. I try to be objective when i give advices so there won't be any biases. Can i ask the same question to you? ^_^
@EvrWonder (3571)
• Canada
16 Dec 08
I am considered a good friend to some and they know that they can tell me absolutely anything, in confidence and I am able to keep their secrets no matter how juicy or outrageous. Integrity and honesty are top of my list also but loyalty as well. I do not trust those who have out right lied to me or stole from me in the past. I do not keep friendships with anyone who has betrayed my trust. Trust is earn. Close friends do confide in me often. I am not interested in blabbing on to someone else about what goes in in private conversations with another. Yes I have had one person with whom I confided in, go on and on about the topics we discussed, to other people who also know me. I felt betrayed but I also believe what goes around comes around. I am not the only one this person has done this to. I believe others will see this person for what they are and see their is not much value in a friendship with that sort of person.
@nixxi76 (3191)
• Canada
16 Dec 08
I can honestly say that I am really good at keeping a secret especually if it's something very serious. I love gossip and like to listen in on what's going on at work and my friend's lives. I refuse to blab something to someone else when I'm asked not to say anything. Usually the way I do it is if I"m going to say something about someone, and I know if they find out they were going to find out from me first because that's how I am.. if I don't like ways that someone is I will tell them. Sure many don't like that much, but I figure if I"m ashamed to admit I said it, then I won't say it at all. Being on the other side of the fence, I can't trust other people though. Have a good night!
@kissie34 (2294)
• Philippines
16 Dec 08
Well, of course I can keep a secret of my friends no matter its a controversial or not.. But through my friend boys, well I usually don't keep it especially if I know that it must be shared to others like to the one they love secretly.. Sometimes, my friend boys don't like to share something from me because I sometimes shout it to our other friends and they don't like it.. I know that its not good but I think its nice to let others know their secrets since we were all friends.. But if they hate me for that still they tell some secrets to me cause they know that I'll do really listen in all of the things that they've said no matter how stupid it is.. I'll sometimes share my experiences and some thoughts regarding their secrets.. Then we both laugh until many friends will joined us.. Its really fun sharing some secrets to my friends because no matter how confidential it is still we love to share with each other.. Of course, the secrets are just within our group and no other would know it..
@tklich (391)
• United States
16 Dec 08
Honesty between friends is the most important thing to me. Being able to open up and trust someone can be a hard thing to do, and an even harder thing to find. There aren't many people in the world that can be trusted, and it can be very hard to find good, true friends because of this. I know that if I confide in someone, I expect to be able to trust this person and trust they will keep my secret. So always keeping this in mind, I make it a point to always make sure my friends know that they can confide in me and trust that I will keep their secrets. I work in a real estate office with about 75 agents in it. I have become friends with several of the agents, but one agent inparticular I have become very close with. We tell each other things that we don't tell anyone else, and trust each other that we won't go telling other people. I love having this great friendship with her and would never do anything to jeoprodize our relationship. My life would be very different if I didn't have friends confide in. I have had people in the past that I believed to be my good friends, but found out the hard way that they betrayed me and that I couldn't trust them at all. It makes it very hard for me to be able to trust people now, but am very fortunate for the people that I do have in my life that I am able to trust in.
• Malaysia
16 Dec 08
Hi wheel416 :) keeping a secret? I do keep a lot of secret. But for some reason I believe that there is a time that we have to revealed the secret "when it become emergency". But, as for me, I don't really share my secret with my friend cause I think it is better to keep it myself.
• Philippines
16 Dec 08
Sssshhhhh.... I don't want to tell you. My supposed answer is a secret between me and my ex-girlfriend. She doesn't like TRUST anymore. Oh my, what did I say?