What's the big deal with secrets?
Secrets have been around since we were kids and it has always possessed that thrill of making someone feel powerful when someone confides private thoughts in them. I feel as though in my lifetime, secrets are more often shared with others than actually kept, well, secret.
Do you remember in elementary school when your best friend told you something on the playground that you promised not to tell anyone? But, what was the first thing you did? You ran and told anyone you could find, especially the person whom the secret was about. It was a thrill to tell the secret your friend trusted you with, and for what? A little attention.
Well ladies and gentlemen, here we are years later in college and has anything changed? No. Secrets are like virus - you can try to keep it contained, but eventually it infects everyone.
It starts with one person spreading the virus to a close friend. Then that friend is close to someone else, and that person gets infected. Then that friend goes home to their family and they get infected, who is then close to another family that gets infected. It is a long chain, but eventually the virus comes full circle back around to the person who started the virus.
So why do we feel the need to share a secret with everyone? Is it for popularity, attention or because we have nothing going on in our life and we want to stir controversy? I don't think there is an actual right answer to this questions, but it is certainly worth considering.
It saddens me that people are so concerned with others' lives that at times they forget about their own. Think about how many times you have told a secret to someone or heard a secret. How many times did that secret get out, or how many times were you the one that told the secret?
In elementary school, the secrets were no big deal. They were small and without a lot of substance. But now that we're growing up, our secrets are more aggressive. They contain more valuable information. AKA: More hurtful information.
A mutating virus can cause mass losses, so let's find a way to contain this horrible disease - before it's too late.
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Kristina Underwood
