Postsecret review 14

Yikes! I almost ran out of time to get to this one! Anyways, here it is. 

"My roommate is a drug dealer. I steal weed all the time and don't feel guilty because he always eats my cheese." I can... understand being irritated by a roommate eating your food. Me personally, I wouldn't get back at them by stealing their weed to smoke for myself, since I'm not interested in that, but maybe I'd sell it and keep the money. 

"What on earth are we even here for? I have no faith." That's a really pessimistic outlook on life. Just because this secret writer apparently feels that their life has no purpose doesn't mean that everyone's life has no purpose. For example, I got this one particular email that made me happy and feel better about my life in general, in a way, while also causing me to be annoyed about something else related to the subject matter of the email.  

"I have been married for years, yet often dream about a man I have never seen or met. I am convinced he is my soulmate and wonder if The universe will ever bring us together." I can't speak to the content of other people's dreams, but the only people who have repeatedly showed up in my dreams are people I know/am aware of and think about. 

"Whenever I'm nervous my mother tells me "it's always worse than you think!," just to make me laugh." That doesn't seem like it would be a very reassuring thing to hear. Maybe that's just me. 

"I've finally realized that sometimes you lose the good things in life to make room for the great things." with a picture of a person sitting down in front of a rock formation that I think is somewhere in Utah. So that leads me to speculate what kind of good thing could've been lost and what great thing replaced it:

"I GAINED 20 POUNDS THIS YEAR I tell all my friends I'm trying to lose it, but really... I LIKE MY NEW CURVES" I feel like gaining 20 pounds would just make me feel fat, not 'curvy.' Maybe this person is taller than I am and so 20 pounds wouldn't look quite so fattening. And/or maybe they were really skinny beforehand and it's more of a difference compared to their former body type. 

"Hollie - your job does not entail reading POST SECRETS All DAY! Go Back to work!" Ooh, I like this one. I wonder how awkward this situation was like for 'Hollie' and whoever wrote and sent in this secret. 

"When I go backpacking, & I pass people on the trail, I judge them based on the gear that they have." This seems sort of like something I could see myself doing.. I think there's no harm as long as you aren't saying your judgmental opinions to the people's faces. Maybe it makes you sort of shallow and judgmental, but that's your problem, not anyone else's, and if they don't like it, they can associate with other people. 

"I was in a relationship 
With another man 
Until he told 
The preachers 
Of my church

Which got me kicked out" 
Maybe this one was an attempt at poetry? I wonder if this guy was a Mormon or if it was some other religion that he got kicked out of.

"I have my MBA. I make minimum wage as a bookseller. I am Above & Beyond happy." I don't think I would be happy in this situation of making minimum wage since I don't think that would be enough money to live comfortably unless I lived in some cheap rednecky place and even then, the minimum wage would possibly be lower than it is here, so it still probably wouldn't be so good. Unless I were married to some rich person who could support me financially. Although I'm not sure I would like that kind of dynamic in a relationship.

"It hurts too much to watch you guys while sober" over a collage of Steelers related pictures. That's an interesting sentiment. I've never been interested in sports enough to feel like that about any team. 

"I don't like a lot of the women in my sorority." Then why did you join?? I wouldn't join a sorority if I didn't like a lot of the women in it. 

That's it for this week. The secrets were alright but I think they could've been better. Regardless, I'm glad I got to it in time even though I was really late. I'll chalk it up to being preoccupied about an ongoing situation in my life that has been annoying me.