Secrets...Do you wish to keep them?

@kritipen (4082)
United States
January 18, 2007 8:52am CST
For me keeping secrets are a big burden. I have to ultimately share them with someone or the other. I cannot keep them for too long..... either mine or others. Secrets make you always think about them and somehow one can never forget them. We can forget the most important things in life but never the secrets...we simply cannot get rid of them. What about you? Are you good at keeping secrets? Dont you think they are a curse?
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@Darkwing (21583)
18 Jan 07
Yes, I agree secrets can be a burden, but I can keep them for a very long time. If they're troubling me too much though, and making me depressed, I will share my own secrets with one other person, whom I trust, implicitly, not to repeat what I've said. However, when it comes to keeping secrets of other people, which I have been entrusted with, I will never utter a word unless they ask me to. I value the fact that they have trusted me enough to tell me, and therefore, I won't break that trust.
@kritipen (4082)
• United States
18 Jan 07
Yes, i agree with you about keeping others secrets. But what if that other person has told you something which requires action or advice from your side and you arent able to decide what should be done. Dont you think you require the help of someone else.
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@Darkwing (21583)
18 Jan 07
That's a good question, but no, I would suggest to the person who told me the secret that somebody else might be able to act on it in a more positive way, and that they should perhaps tell them what they told me.
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• Singapore
19 Jan 07
I do agree keeping secrets can be a burden and i also do agree keeping secrets can be a good too.. keeping secrets can have 2 side whether is it bad or good.. but the things is in life having secret are beautiful to have it.. it would be good to share with people who u trust with and ur loved ones. it also can be good to keep it as it may hurt them. ultimately, you have a choice to tell or not... cos u know the value of the secret... =p tsk tsk..
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@gbspew (455)
• Bulgaria
18 Jan 07
You have to keep the secrets because that means you are true to keep your word. And I think this is very important in life.
• India
19 Jan 07
I can keep any secret with me througoput my life. But during those sweetest and weakest moments, I reveal everything to my partner because I can't wait anymore.
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@kritipen (4082)
• United States
20 Jan 07
That was indeed a sweetest and honest answer. Thank you.
• India
20 Jan 07
only 1% of humans can keep any secret they're told to keep. And they ultimately become CIA agents. For others, if it is a secret, we'll have to tell someone, or we'll feel uncomfortable
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@kritipen (4082)
• United States
20 Jan 07
Well said.
• Pakistan
18 Jan 07
Yeah for me its the same. Keeping secret with me and not telling it to anyone I feel abit uncomfortable and I also cant keep them unshared for too long period. I do loose them shortly.
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@kritipen (4082)
• United States
21 Jan 07
Me too.
@aash63 (75)
• India
19 Jan 07
"secrets" its an intresting topic to discuss.we all has secrets of our own which may be of personal or official.but to keep it as such is a type of hard job.while we are keeping some secrets we feel we are losing our mind power, some time we feel our secrets has been expossed while we go through some circumstances.but it is thrill to keep secrets in mind and i has alots of secrets to tell in my mind both personal and official.
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@kritipen (4082)
• United States
20 Jan 07
Thank you.
• India
19 Jan 07
hi kritipen...................... secret.......! in this word itself the answer is also thr... while u share it u should not take it as a secret.. it seems to b burden but the result of keeping secrets secretely ll b high........... so secrets should b kept safely........
@kritipen (4082)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Thank you.
@UcoksBaBa (800)
• Indonesia
18 Jan 07
In spite of that with me when getting the message from sameone to keep a secret then for me that was the big message and really was difficult to be able to hold the secret stayed safe in our brain, so I will not accept anything from someone the friend or ralatives to keep their secret.
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@kritipen (4082)
• United States
20 Jan 07
Thank you.
@kerbausama (1335)
• Malaysia
20 Jan 07
yes i do for sure..they are my dignity..
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@kritipen (4082)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Thank you.
• Serbia And Montenegro
24 Jan 07
I always keep my secret to myself. I've never really told anyone about most of the things. I keep them all to myself. There were times, many years ago when i was a kid and i thought and felt that i needed someone for every secret that i got, so that i have a place to rely on if something goes wrong. But i let out secrets and things to the wrong people. Then i know the best thing is to just keep everything to myself, be it how difficult as it could get. I went on YEARS with this principle. And after many years, i realized it's not the best thing to do. You "do" need someone, if you trust them enough, and if the secret is worth sharing with, then go ahead.
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@kritipen (4082)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Thank you you for that elaborate response.
• Philippines
19 Jan 07
I keep secrets and if I couldn't hold it in, I talk to my friend(the one that gave me the secret) about it and talk things over. Especially if the secrets are about infidelity or about things which are darker. They trust me to keep them hence the friendship is strengthened. They are not a curse :D They are actually blessings since friends who ask you to keep secrets trust you.
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@kritipen (4082)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Thank you.
18 Jan 07
Well I am very good at keeping secrets that most of the people who know me very well have trusted their most delicate secrets with me. No I have never divulged anybody s secrets because if I do so then How will it be a secret??? It would also disrupt the trust that people have in me.
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@kritipen (4082)
• United States
21 Jan 07
Thank you.
24 Jan 07
I like to think I am good at keeping secrets, but I can understand why some people (myself included) have a burning desire to share them with other people. When someone tells you a secret they put you in a priveliged position which comes with an air of superiority...you know something that no-one else knows...yet to fully feel this superiority we must share the secret with others, otherwise the superior position we are placed in by being told the secret is never fully realised. It's like getting top grades in a test but not been able to tell anyone.
@kritipen (4082)
• United States
24 Jan 07
That was such a brilliant insight into the problem as to why we feel like sharing a secret. Yet there is another side to why we also share...when we are afraid to keep others secret and might be blamed later...
25 Jan 07
Yes, you are completely right, I hadn't even looked at it from that angle. There are some secrets which really do challenge us to consider what is the morally right thing for us to do as a human being and it can often be a hard choice to make.
24 Jan 07
I don't like keep secrets. They are normally dark secrets, things that you never wish disclose because you think something horrid will happen. Then when you disclose because the burden is too much you realise it was not such a horrid response to the horrible secret. I suffered abuse and never told a soul until after a counselling session I bit the bullet and told my Mother. She was very supportive and my old fears of being called a liar or thrown out did not happen.
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@kritipen (4082)
• United States
24 Jan 07
ou are lucky to have such a supportive person in your mother.
@vendan (127)
• India
19 Jan 07
I'm good in keeping secrets. oh!! i disclosed it!!! have u heard this? "a secret between two is a secret of god! a secret between three is everybodys' secret!!"
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@kritipen (4082)
• United States
19 Jan 07
I never heard about it. it is nice. thanks.
@rurita (212)
• Indonesia
19 Jan 07
same with me, i cant keep a secret for my self, its a burden for me and i cant keep stopping to think about it every single time. when i have a secret or a problem i always tell my friend or my mother to have some advice, so i know what kind of action that match for me. but there is a secret that i'm not telling to someone. its not a burden for me, its just that i want to keep it for my self ^^
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@kritipen (4082)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Thank you.
@vicky19810 (1600)
• China
19 Jan 07
lol...you are not a good secrets keeper.for me ,i do not know how to say myself.i just can say,i am a good secrets keeper,as when my friend or someone told me that not to tell others about his story,i never betray a word,and will keep secret for them.but i will say i am not a good secrets keeper,as i often talk about my own story to others,and i would tell my secrets to my friends.so ,i feel that ,i am a pure person before them.
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@kritipen (4082)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Thank you.
@bugbaby (1787)
• Indonesia
19 Jan 07
yes, i am agree with you i always share something with my wife but i always keep my friends secrets but i don't think thats a curse
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@kritipen (4082)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Thank you.
@ddm610 (117)
• Philippines
19 Jan 07
my friends trust me when it comes to keeping secrets. whenever they tell me something that's supposed to be kept as a secret,it's just as if i never heard anything. But when it comes to my own secrets, just like you i find them as burdens and i really have to share it with at least one person.
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@kritipen (4082)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Thank you.
@jaizdeep (397)
• India
19 Jan 07
Yeah completely!! Even i think the same way as u do ... for me keeping secrets is a nig job.i cant keep them up to me and always have that anxiety factor about it.So the best thing is to share them with someone.So i share all the secrets of my life with my girlfriend.I trust her more then my life and i know she will not spill it out to anyone so i tell her everything In this way the information doesn't go out and is not limited to me
@kritipen (4082)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Thank you.
@flikkenni (537)
• Indonesia
19 Jan 07
Of course i wish to keep them, maybe i said that i must and have to keep them. Secret is something that someone else trust it to you. So you must keep it not to tell it to others as the one who gives you this secret has trust you, you mustn't betrayed them. I always try my best to keep other people secret, 'cause they have trust me so i will not betrayed them. No, i don't think secret is a curse. I pretend it as a give, you must be happy if someone give you a secret that means they believe you, they trust you.
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@kritipen (4082)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Thank you.