Handling secrets

Secrets are secrets. I'm not the kind of person that would let out a secret I'm told. The reason why it's a secret in the first place is because the owner of that secret doesn't want people to know about it. Of course, a reason why anyone would tell me their secret is because they trust me.

Maintaining trust is important to me. I wouldn't want to betray someone's trust in me. Secrets find a way to spread once they are let out. If I expose somebody's secret to another person, that person might tell another individual in confidence and so forth. Before you know it, it becomes an open secret. As a result of that, I could lose someone's trust forever.

Usually, when I'm told a secret, I forget it after a brief period. This makes things easier for me because the more the secret stays on my mind, the higher the tendency that I may spill the secret.

Furthermore, keeping secrets is a burdensome task. That is why forgetting is easier for me. I usually just take it out of my mind. It's not like I won't remember it anymore, it just won't be an active thought in my mind.

Most people feel good knowing they have someone reliable that can share their secrets with and be sure that the secret won't leak out. Indeed, it is a good feeling.

In a situation where someone trusts me with a secret, and that secret could be detrimental to someone I care about, it is a whole different ball game. It is a difficult situation, I must say.

For me, a lot would depend on the severity of the secret. If the secret is one that is threatening the life of someone, especially someone I care about, I'm definitely spilling that secret. I obviously would not want to be complicit regarding something that would hurt someone seriously.

As long as that secret is one that involves my loved one being hurt, I'm telling. I know I would break the trust I have in the sight of the person who entrusted me with the secret, but I know I won't be able to live with the fact that I had the opportunity to prevent something bad from happening to someone I care about and I didn't do anything. I prefer to live with breaking someone's trust in this case.

I am someone who believes in doing the right thing, and this seems like the right thing to do. Who knows, perhaps I was told that secret so that I could do something about it and prevent my loved one from getting hurt.

I would do whatever it takes to protect the ones I love, as long as it is right.