Are you a good secret keeper?

United States
April 30, 2007 9:17pm CST
If a friend tells you a secret can you keep it or are you one that has to tell someone else about it? I keep a lot of secrets for my friends but sometimes I wish they wouldn't tell me cause there are times that I don't want to keep their secrets secret. Not because I'm a blabber mouth but because I think they need some serious help with the secret that they have told me and I know I can't say anything without them thinking I'm a blabber mouth. If someone told you something you think might be harmful to themselves or others would you tell or would you keep it a secret like they had asked of you.
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35 responses
• United States
3 May 07
I can keep secrets, unless it is a secret that includes one of my best friends and I know I can tell my mother and trust her not to spread it.
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@rodeotexas (1153)
• United States
1 May 07
I am pretty good a keeping secrets unless it's something that I know will end up messing something or someone up. If someone tells me a secret I keep my mouth shut. I've never told any secrets you have told me or any that my close close friends have told me. It really just depends on the secret but if the secret is harmful to themselves then I would tell someone who could help them. Yes they may say you are a blabber mouth but telling someone is probably the best thing to do.
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• United States
1 May 07
i am a very good keeper of secrets. Once someone tells me something, if they don't want anyone else to know, it never escapes my lips again. That is, unless it is something htat HAS to be told. i remember one time wheni was in middle school, a friend of mine was having a fight with some of her other friends in front of another friend and i. She ended up screaming "How would you like it if your own dad raped you that you live with?" Well, the other girl and i were shcoked and at first swore to each other we would never say a word, but the more and more we thought about it, we knew we had to tell. She called me that night and we told my mom and my mom called the school. It turned out that it was the girl's stepfather who had been raping her for the past few years. Now, i am glad i told this secret. i felt it had to be told...but as a general rule, i do NOT tell secrets once i am told them.
@Modestah (11179)
• United States
1 May 07
I am a really loyal friend, so I do keep confidences very well. Sometimes it is a difficult task to keep silent on - like very good news, that you just want to burst out with. If the secret they shared could be dangerous to someone else, I would have to talk with the friend as to how we should handle it.
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@mindrich (183)
• Philippines
1 May 07
I always be on the side of the saying "Trust is founded by years". Even sometimes I couldn't afford to keep secret but still I keep on trying not to ruin my trust of others because it takes time to pay the prize.
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@hkdgkurt (146)
• China
1 May 07
Really i'm a secret keeper!if my friends tell me someth secrets about anything because they look me as a true friend i think.so .i would like to keep my mouth shut even if other people mightily want to know what my friend said.Nobody couldnt get a bit of secret for my friend.that' my way-a true secret keeper.
@vinu123 (224)
• India
1 May 07
no i am not i would be definitely sure saying that, cause i never can't keep muy private horror dvd's private from my mo somehow she catches me watching them, so i would say no i am not the perfect secret keeper. if yu can't fool anybody with your act no you definitely are not a secret keeper.
@jayalaksmi (1039)
• India
18 Aug 07
I would had kept it secret. I would not tell it to anyone and kept it secret. IF A SECRET IS TOLD TO SOMEONE THEN THE SECRET DOES NOT REMAIN A SECRET. The friend would had told us the secret with faith and it can't be that the faith of the friend can be broken.
• United States
1 May 07
If the secret is gonna harm others and the person who want this to be a secret then better keep my mouth shut and i will open my mouth about it to others if there is a possiblity to avoid the "harm" if we discuss about it with others.
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• United States
1 May 07
I'm a great secret keeper. I keep a secret long as you say I have to. I will NOT tell anyone. I know some people who tell some people but not all. I wouldnt. I keep stuff for years sometimes. Its true. I dont mind keeping it secret if you ask me to.
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@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
20 Mar 08
If it's just a normal run of the mill secret yes, I'll keep it...actually I'll generally forget it so, it's definately safe. However, if it's something I know will affect others or hurt someone else than no, I can't sit by and not do anything. !!HAPPY EASTER!! **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~
@mari123 (1861)
• China
1 May 07
i am a blabber mouth that i can not keep the secrets for my friends,i like to talk with people,and cann't consider what should say and what shouldn't say,so i am usually embarrassed to my talk.so i don't know how to keep my mouth to speak the topic,and what ways to give me change the talks.
• United States
2 May 07
At least you admit to being a blabber mouth. :)
• China
17 Aug 07
I will keep my friends's secrets even bad secrets.when they tell me secrets they are trust in me.I can't disappoint them..
@EZhang (165)
• Singapore
17 Aug 07
It really depends on the friend I have. If she doesn't tell me her secrets or spill beans about mine, I would definitely tell on her and tell everyone I knew and also to people I do not know about her secrets. But if she's a trustworthy person, I'll carry her secrets with me to the day I go into the grave..
@Lydia1901 (16351)
• United States
6 May 07
I am so good at keeping secrets because I dont' find the need to go tell other's business when they trusted me with their secrets.
@magica (3707)
• Bulgaria
1 May 07
I usually keep their secrets- of course, if they dont tell me that this is a secret, i can make a mistake. And later i apologize. Everybody makes mistakes.
@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
1 May 07
Wow, this is a hard one. Normally, I'm a very very good secret keeper. I'll carry some secrets to the grave. But no one has ever told me anything that I honestly believed would harm them or someone else. I've held secrets for people sho have done dumb things and I've told them so but there was no possiblity of furture harm. If I REALLY thought there was possible future harm, I might break the silence but I would tell the person I wasn't going to keep their secret.
@Augustta (1850)
• Poland
1 May 07
I'm usually pretty good about keeping a secret. Although, my boyfriend and I always tell each other everything, so I inevitably end up telling him but, he never tells anyone else and vice versa.
@Divzs18 (441)
• India
1 May 07
Well it all depends on the fact that what kind of secret is it and whose secret is it ...if it belongs to that of my friend than I'll always keep it no matter what...but sometimes there arises situation in which we have no other choice than to reveal the secret, under such condition I think like me nobody keeps the secret with themselves...
@wonderful1 (2075)
• China
1 May 07
Yes, I'm a good secret keeper. If my friends tell me their secrets ,I can keep it forever. But sometimes I feel very difficult to keep some secrects. For example, a friend of mine tells me that he loves that girl, but he always shows that he doesnt like her.And someday ,the girl asks me that whether the boy has a gf. I tell her that he is single,then the girl tells me that she wants to be his gf.But she thinks the boy dislikes her.I wanna tell her that he also loves you.But i cant, i promise that i can keep it for him.And I cant tell the boy too. I feel very uncomfortable.It is a good thing if I tell them their real feeling, but...... Finally, I decide to be a blabber. Then they become a pair of happy lover.They dont thank me and hate me.But they both think I shouldnt tell them the secrets.