I sat down at my dest one day trying to feel creative. There was a box of every colored sharpie anyone could want, and a 4 X 6 postcard just as blank as when I got it. How do you decide what secret to write down? Non of my secrets seemed as big or meaningful as all those poor people in the book. I didn't have a friend die, loose a major job interview, I just lived out a normal life. Then I start thinking about regrets, and suddenly I became enlightened because one intance comes straight to my mind. But how to put it down? Who will see this postcard, and what will they think of me? Will they judge it, and what story will they put to the picture. I was nervous for a stranger to see something so intimate to me, yet excited at the same time. Will sending this postcard really lift the burden of my regret?
Well, I don't know if I feel better about what I had done, nor if I will ever forget; however, I feel happier. It lightened the load, I was no longer the sole human being to know this little fact. Is sending a postcard to PostSecret theraputic? Yes. Will it solve all your problems? No.
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I love what you say about worrying what kind of story people will put behind your secret because I always make up stories about the confessions on PostSecret. The urge of narrative, to make meaning out of what you see on PS is overwhelming. It's strange that you can imagine what people's lives are like, try to identify with them, justify their acts, judge them . . but really we know nothing about the people or their secrets. That's what I think is so interesting about the PS project, that how we relate to the postcards says much more about who we are than the anonymous confessors. It's as if we make each secret our own, and I find this fascinating.
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