Another one, here it is on this Halloween evening. It seems that quite a few were worthwhile to comment on this time! [Actually, I'm going to finish this later, once a new batch of secrets probably will have been posted.]
"I'm sorry. My lies ruined us
I hope you're ok and happy
I'm not"
This one is rather too vague to know what it's about, but I guess kind of I like the angsty regret conveyed in it?
"My office gave me this 'random' card during appreciation week. I'm not sure if it's a pat on the back or a slap in the face." The card says "There's no need to be so hard on yourself, you're managing as best as you can." over an illustration of a cute tiger and the secret is written over that.
This one I like because it's somewhat less generic.
"When I am really stressed at work, I book a conference room and watch blackhead extraction videos on the big screen. (I'm a C-suite exec and it's time well spent, calms me)."
I... don't quite know what to say about this one. But I guess it makes me wonder about the potentially bizarre habits of other fancy businesspeople?
"When another woman steals your man the best revenge is to let her keep him!" (over a wedding photo)
This one has some backstory about the author and the person the secret was about, who apparently read and liked said secret without knowing it was about her! It makes me wonder about other situations where the subjects of secrets happened to read secrets that were about them, whether they realized it somehow or not. I guess it's also making me wonder how common it is for spouses to be stolen by others...
"At the beginning of a relationship, I plan for the end of it."
Seems a bit fatalistic and also a bit vague, since... how can you know how, when or even if a given relationship will end? I feel like the specific circumstances around how/when it ends (which would be unknowable, most likely, at the beginning of a relationship, unless the writer had specific ideas at that time about how they planned to end it, like "I will break up with this person over the phone in exactly six months from now.") could really impact any theoretical plans one might have for the end. Someone dying unexpectedly would have a different impact than if they or the writer cheated and that caused the end of the relationship. Or maybe they would just happen to gradually drift apart? Lots of different possibilities here. So many ways relationships can go wrong!
"My children hate me because I divorced and remarried but I often wonder if they would still think their father was a hero if they knew what he did to me when I was pregnant. ..with them" (over an image of a pregnant woman, seemingly on a poster about abuse/violence against women and children with some facts: 40% of women abused during pregnancy reported that the abuse began when they became pregnant and 21% of women abused by their partners were assaulted during their pregnancy)
This one is somewhat dark. I wonder what the father did to make the children think he was a hero, even though he abused the mother and they aren't aware of that?
"I had a dream that you woke up from a coma, you were never really gone. I've cried every night since"
The concept of comas fascinates me for some reason. In a way, I feel like being in a coma could be restful for the person in it. But to the people who know the comatose person, it might not be such a restful experience for them as they might be worried about the comatose person.
"I think I have a moustache fetish..." (over an illustration of a man's face with a mustache drawn on it)
I don't. I can't really imagine what it would be like to have a mustache fetish. I think clean-shaven faces look much better.
"My dad told me which drugs will give me the best high." It must be different to have parents who do/have done drugs and therefore can advise on this matter!!
"My sister attempted suicide. I am angry because I feel that she took that freedom away from me."
Another relatively dark secret although I don't really see how one sibling attempting suicide necessarily takes that (freedom?) away from the other sibling.
"It wasn't an erection. I purposely stuck a cardboard tube in the front of my pants, I still act embarrassed like it was one." All I have to say about this one is: but why.
"hey DICK I threw the ring you gave me off here" (with an arrow pointing to the edge of the Grand Canyon; on a postcard depicting the Grand Canyon)
I wonder how expensive the ring was, and if anyone ever found it in the bottom of the Grand Canyon??
"the person who taught me 'your only as sick as your secrets' has been lying to me my whole life but I know why and understand" (beneath an old photo of a young-ish/not particularly old man and a boy standing next to a car with the side doors open -- the photo appears to be maybe from the 1980s?)
The photo accompanying this one kind of intrigues me, and the secret leaves to the imagination what the subject was lying about. Mysterious!
"For the first time, my life has promise and direction
I forgive anyone and everyone in the past who has hurt me, even myself.
I bless these experiences and let them go.
They are no longer a part of my reality
I'm including my rapist too"
This one is kind of pleasantly uplifting/hopeful.
"I am so ashamed of myself I punish myself I escape in alcohol" (over an image of a martini with a fake eyeball in red liquid, a cigar and a few other glasses for alcoholic beverages. The secret is written in those little arrow-shaped post-it notes to mark pages, a word or two on each.)
This one isn't particularly unique or anything, but I liked the image of the fake eyeball in the drink...
"My TV shows have become my salvation" (inside the screen of a simple drawing of an old-fashioned TV set)
It makes me wonder which TV shows the writer is referring to, and what circumstances they've found themselves in that mean TV shows are their salvation... seems like a rather grim and also shallow, in a way, existence.
"My sister admitted trying to kill me twice, after she tried to kill herself this year" (written in neat all-caps handwriting) An alarming situation. This murderous/suicidal sister doesn't sound very stable!
"I bought this pack so that I can mail my secrets in
Because I can't take this SHIT ANYMORE!!!" (on the label of a pack of index cards)
Yet no actual secret of substance. Tsk tsk.
"I'm jealous of teen moms" (over a photo of what evidently are two teen moms with large pregnant bellies)
I am not jealous of them and I really do wonder why the secret writer here is. What aspect of that situation do they find appealing? Maybe they just really want children and sooner rather than later?
"I fantasize about putting a hit on the man who raped me. All it would take is a phone call to do it. He has no idea whose daughter he hurt."
It makes me wonder whose daughter it is! Imagine being able to call a hitman on a whim!
