Today in zero hour, we watched a video about this man who had a website dedicated to people mailing in secrets that they were keeping. They were kept anonymous obviously, so no one would be offended. They weren't all bad secrets, there were actually some pretty funny ones. One that we saw, was sent in on half of a Starbucks cup. It read: When customers are rude to me, I give them decaf. I may never know who that person has, but they have my undying respect.
But what really made me think was how people were unafraid to send them to this website.Sure, no one will find out that you sent it in, but you'll know. And from my experience, knowing I did something that I probably shouldn't have is worse than someone else knowing. If you break something cheap, people might say, "Oh, just forget about it." But if you broke it, ran for it, and got away, then only you know what happened. I don't know about other people, but I get this feeling of guilt, that I should've stayed and apologized. Basically, I shouldn't have run away. So, when I'm telling someone a secret, I feel like I shouldn't have. They trusted me, and I'm just holding it out for the world to see. Alternatively, they could be exposing their own secrets instead of other people's, but I think most people would find that too personal to do.
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