“I wonder which is preferable — to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you’re depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin — everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone — and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you?”
— from The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
i was just thinking about this last night. and from the way the quote went, for now, i’m leaning toward keeping secrets like a “hoarded gold.”
there are several secrets that i’ll be taking with me to my grave. they probably won’t mean to anybody else, but i’m not too hung up on them. i’d like to think of them as part of my identity. well, whatever.
anyways, i’m just so relieved the Signpost is already online. thanks again.
Have you heard of Postsecret.com? I have yet to submit mine.
TPS, I found that site through your links actually