Postsecret review 11

Really late on this one, almost too late, but here it is. I think I'll cut myself some slack because I was suffering from a cold this week. 

"I work from home for 'health reasons', but it's actually so I can go nude all the time." This one... sort of baffles me. Maybe it makes sense to people who live by themselves, or with their significant other. Otherwise it'd be pretty weird to wander around the house naked if you're living with other people. 

"My BFF his his AIDS because he didn't want to be fired. He died on a 'sick day'" I think this is actually the first secret about AIDS that I can remember reading, so that's something.. 

"I cry whenever an argument isn't going my way (works every time)" That's sort of childish. 

"I '[facebook like icon]' posts from super-conservative Facebook pages in the hopes that occasionally, one will appear in front of one of my many super-liberal 'Friends' just to annoy them." That's yet another passive aggressive thing to do, like a number of secrets have confessed in the past. 

"Christians elected Trump. Now I no longer believe." Well, that's as good a reason as any to apostatize, I guess. (over a picture with the bible verse "Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you" underlined)

"[a secret seemingly written in the IPA characters, which I sort of know, but the handwriting isn't so good so I can only make out 'I contain' although there is another word, over a picture labeled Walt Whitman, who was possibly a transcendentalist? ... actually, on second glance, I think the third word is 'multitudes'...]"

"I'm so proud of you for beating this shit. You're better off without it." (over a picture of some kind of drug, it looks like. Crystal meth??)

"I think He is watching us slowly destroy the LIFE He gave us" I guess if you're religious, this is a thought that you might have. I personally can't recall ever having a thought like this, but some of the thoughts that I do have are along the lines of "What would it be like if I became a drug addict?" or "I wonder if I'll get murdered" or "It would be just awful to have one's legs blown off by a bomb" or "[location] is where you can get the cheapest Big Mac that I'm aware of" 

"I'll never let go. Your hands and your heart are my home." I assume this person means it sort of more figuratively. Also, naturally, I thought of the movie Titanic... 

"I am happily married but I, recently, googled my ex boyfriend. I found out he died. I am surprised by how much his death is bothering me." I think this is understandable. I also like the style of writing of this secret, even though it's only a few sentences. If, say, theoretically, I found out that a certain someone who I really don't know barely anything about, had died, I'd probably be fairly sad about it even though I only talked to him like once and that was to ask (weirdly, probably, to him at least) to touch his very blonde hair. So let's hope that he's alive and well, doing whatever it is that he's doing, which I don't know specifically because I don't know him personally, I just know of him. 

"I wish I would get as sick as the patients on House [MD, a tv show about doctors] just to see who would visit me in the hospital." This is an interesting secret, although I'm not quite sure that I share this person's thoughts. I don't exactly think that I'd like to get as sick as the patients on House MD, even if I would get to find out who would visit me in the hospital.

"I steal the coupon section from your paper every Sunday before you get up." I really wonder about a) the motivations behind this and b) the relationship between the author and the person whose coupons are being stolen, since that would provide some much-needed context.

"I'm soooo afraid I've missed all my chances... and will end up alone & lonely" (with a chart showing a graph of age vs "chances of finding my true love & soulmate") 
A) "alone & lonely" is pretty redundant. B) the graph drawn isn't labeled with any numbers on either axis, which to me seems like a glaring omission. That wouldn't get you a good grade at all in math class. Plus, age is put on the y axis and I think it should go on the x axis, as that axis is for time and age is a kind of time.. I don't even like math but I know some things about how graphs are supposed to made properly.

"I tell all the kids I babysit that I turn into a mermaid at night. They always believe me." That's kind of cute, actually, although I personally have no patience for taking care of small children, even if I were getting paid for it.

"I never thought I would be able to pin it down so precisely... ... but I've realized that today is the last day of my childhood." I wonder what particular thing made the writer decide that that particular day was the last day of their childhood. It could be any number of things. 

"My wife spent our entire marriage wishing she had married someone else" I assume this was written by the husband (or possibly other wife, I guess), which made me think that it'd be kind of weird to tell your spouse "I wish I'd married someone else"... that seems like the kind of thing that you maybe wouldn't want them to be aware of. But what do I know, I've never been married. 

"This is NOT my husband's foot. But - woops - that one sure does belong to me!" (over a picture of two feet) I'm going to assume this secret alludes to an affair going on. Some affairs are worse than other affairs, I'd say. I wrote a post about that somewhere in the past.

"I promised I would'nt tell." (over a picture of an outline of a body) I guess you could make a conjecture that this one alludes to murder, or something. What bothers me more is the incorrect apostrophe placement in "wouldn't"... 

This week's secrets actually seemed fairly interesting, a nice mixed bag of different topics covered. I think these seemed to be slightly better than some in past weeks. It's good that I got to this before it was too late or I would've missed the second week in a row. 

I decided to check the Postsecret twitter account as well, just to see if anything interesting had been tweeted, and the guy who runs Postsecret retweeted a tweet saying "Writing 20 minutes about a positive experience dramatically improves happiness. Your brain re-lives it while writing... and while reading it" which I thought was kind of interesting... I wonder what kinds of positive experiences I could spend time writing about for this blog. I think I already sort of covered one recently, about going to see the eclipse. And I guess this sort of reassures me that it's not too... weird to occasionally go back and read my own various blog posts. I hope that doesn't make me a narcissist. Also, I figure that if I'm going to put as much effort as I do into writing for this blog that very few people probably actually read, then maybe I should try to get a job as a real writer, meaning that I get paid for it, since I certainly seem to not really mind writing, at least the various stuff that I write for this blog. There might be stuff out there that I wouldn't exactly enjoy writing though. Like if I had to watch Johnny Depp movies and review them, I don't think I'd really enjoy that as much as I enjoy being able to decide completely on the topics I decide to blog about. Here, it's all up to me, and I like that. If I want to write half my posts about Peter Sarsgaard, then I can do that if I so desire. And so on.