Double Secret

This postcard was published on the PostSecret Website. A black and white image of a young girl looking off into the distance it saddens me at the first glance. Then to read the words, "My biggest secret isn't even my own. Maybe sending this post secret will release me. I've never told a soul your secret. I should have." Keeping a secret against all odds. What does hearing a secret do to the listener? Do they take on the burden and responsibility or the secret, tucking it away for later thoughts. Will this secret begin to eat at the listener the same way it did the confessor? How does the listener deal with the secrets they consume? Do they repent, or write, do they just wallow in sympathy for the confessor. They take on an emotional burden solely to relieve another person. Is confession selfish? Does the confessor ever think about what they are putting the listener through? We confess to relieve ourselves, to make ourselves feel better. What about the person we're confessing to?

Closer

The closer is another crime show that plays on prime-time TV, but this one deals entirely with confessions. The main character is called "the closer" and it is her job to get criminals to confess to their crimes. It is interesting to see how she pulls confessions out of people. She changes techniques from sympathetic and understanding, to forceful and bad-cop like, to a twisting, manipulative manner. In the end she almost always gets the confession out of the criminal. How does she deal with having to force these people to tell their secrets, especially with them being heinous crimes. Is it because she knows they will be prosecuted? Or does she just harden her heart...

Group Hug

Group Hug is a website similar to Not Proud where people can post their confessions for anyone to read anonymously. It is a way to free some of the burden a secret bears without affecting your day-to-day life. None you know would ever read that and know it's you, it is perfect.

Listen

"Do You Want to Know a Secret?" - The Beatles

You'll never know how much I really love you

You'll never know how much I really care

Listen

Do you want to know a secret

Do you promise not to tell, whoa oh, oh

Closer

Let me whisper in your ear

Say the words you long to hear

I'm in love with you

Listen

Do you want to know a secret

Do you promise not to tell, whoa oh, oh

Closer

Let me whisper in your ear

Say the words you long to hear

I'm in love with you

I've known the secret for a week or two

Nobody knows, just we two

Listen

Do you want to know a secret

Do you promise not to tell, whoa oh, oh

Closer

Let me whisper in your ear

Say the words you long to hear

I'm in love with you

Not Proud

www.notproud.com

This website, which is no longer being updated, reminds me of PostSecret. It is a site which you could post your confessions anmoyusly for anyone to read. It is subdivided into eight subcategories; pride, envy, sloth, gluttony, greed, lust, anger, and miscelaneous. The confessions range from ording a pizza for your wife then eating it instead, to hacking into computer systems. This site provided a way for people to rid the burdens of their everyday secrets, lies, confessions, and regrets.

Depression

A Poem about confessing to have depression...

Confession

Submitted by Christina
E-mail: beautifulgurl_88@hotmail.com

I have a confession.
Please forgive me.
I'm afraid that my disease is coming back.
Piece by piece.I'm falling apart.
It's slowly taking over my mind and my thoughts.
It keeps on telling me what to do.
I try not listening to it
I try to ignore it but I'm to weak.
I'm a weak girl.
I cannot fight this disease.
I pretend that everything is okay.
I smile to people, look at them in the eye
lieing to their face
telling them that I'm fine.
Shall I confess
or shall I keep forever this secret in me ?
What will they think ?
What will they say ?
Will this disease take over me ?
Take over my mind ?
Take over my thoughts ?
Will it take over me..completly ?
Question after question-non stop.
Answeres-never.
I believe that this life is a big dream.
I feel like I'm stuck in this big dream...
stuck in a nightmare.
When will I wake up :(
I'm scared.
This nightmare is really scaring me.
But I shouldn't worry it's just a dream
which is almost over !
This is almost over...
my life is almost over.
There's nothing left for me to live for.
I'm just a sad girl.
I'm just a depressed girl.
They dont know what's going in my head.
They think I'm okay.
I cannot take it anymore.
When will I wake up ?
So there you have it...
I confessed you my biggest secret.
Forgive me again.
Sorry for the lies and the fake smiles
and saying that I was okay when I really wasn't.