Keeping Secrets

Everyone has secrets, some are big and some are small. Its fun to know a secret, it gives you this feeling of pride, “I know something you don’t!” But sometimes it goes out of hand. Sometimes a secret is not yours to tell, and things go terribly wrong.

Have you ever felt that the more you get to know about a person, the more your opinion about them changes? Secrets do the same thing in a different way. As you tell someone and it keeps spreading, slowly so does the secret and then it becomes a lie, a rumor. And this may cause the person, who the secret is about, a lot of embarrassment or emotional pain. This could give them a bad name, without them actually doing anything wrong. Your big mouth could cause a lot of trouble. And you may not have meant for it to spread, but just as thought “I’ll only tell one person and no one else,” that person may have thought the same way.

So, think before you talk, what you say might affect someone around you. And if someone has trusted you with a secret, no matter whom they are, whether you like them or not, learn to respect the trust that they have put in to you. Keep your lips sealed!