sharing-secrets

Secrets. Funny how, when you're about to be given something precious, something you've wanted for a long time, you suddenly feel nervous over taking it.Everyone wants more than anything to be allowed into someone else's most secret self. Everyone wants to allow someone into their most secret self. Everyone feels so alone inside that their deepest wish is for someone to know their secret being, because then they are alone no longer. Don't we all long for this? Yet when it's offered it's frightening, because you might not live up to the desires of the one who bestows the gift. And frightening because you know that accepting such a gift means you'll want-perhaps be expected- to offer a similar gift in return. Which means giving your *self* away. And what's more frightening than that?

If I don't talk about it, it's either very displeasing or very precious to me.

Joyful life, sharing life with people.

It needs strength to stay silent, but it needs courage to confide in somebody.

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a secret they don't know me well enough to be told. It lets me judge their potential as a friend.

Secrets make life more interesting. You can be in a crowded room with someone and touch them without touching, just with a look, because they know a part of you no one else knows. And whenever you're with them, the two of you are alone, because the you they see no one else can.

She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would be hard to talk about. As I said, later I understood that someone who flees into honesty like that fears something, fears that her life will fill with something that can no longer be shared, a genuine secret, indescribable, unutterable.

A secret spoken finds wings.

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter_ they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.

Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it__ not your secret to tell.

We are bound by the secrets we share.