Postsecret review 26

 Getting this one done a little earlier than usual...

"I hate that I know what your wife likes in bed. Even more, I hate that we like the same things. So when you're doing them to me, I can't help but imagine you doing them to her." (over a photo of a blindfolded woman with a finger to her lips)

Oh fun, another secret that has to do with affairs. I am wondering about how the writer found out what the wife likes in bed, whether this was from talking to the wife (maybe they're friends?) or the husband talking about what his wife likes... 

"Antique furniture scares me" (over a torn out image depicting various antique furniture arranged in a grid)

I really wonder why exactly it scares them, yet at the same time, somehow I can kind of understand this...

"I keep hoping I'll see my brother in law in one of these images so I can turn him in and give my sister a second chance" (over a photo of the Capitol insurrection rioters)

This one is kind of interesting because it provides a small look into some more individual/personal dynamics of this situation. I wonder if the writer did end up seeing their brother in law in a photo and turning him in?

"today i realized i could no longer remember what you were like when you still loved me" 

This one, aesthetically and thematically, is vaguely reminiscent of A Softer World, so that's what I find interesting about it. I also sort of like how it is a bit melancholy.  

"When you are being unreasonable, I put you on mute and scream obscenities at you" (over a photo of a man holding a telephone and screaming with an angry expression on his face)

While I can see how this would be cathartic, it also seems like it could potentially go wrong if the phone happened to actually not be on mute while the obscenity-screaming took place...

A selection of secrets, while not inherently that interesting to me by themselves, are slightly more interesting when looked at together:

"After my son was born I secretly wished he would die so I could have my life back / Now I would give my life so he could live / I never knew I could love someone so much" (over an image of a newborn baby in the hospital) / "I'm afraid that I won't be strong enough to raise my son to be the man that his father failed to be." 

It is interesting to me how these secrets both have to do with reflections on parenting. The first one is a positive reflection, that the writer ended up loving their son more than they expected even though they initially secretly wished the son would die. The second one is more of a worry about the writer's ability to be a good parent to their son. There were a couple of other secrets about parenting as well: "I could of been a father... but I was to scared" / "He still loves us, even after I told him it wasn't his..."

"I have always wanted an Afro" / "I feel like I have to work harder to look pretty because my hair is curly" / "I feel like the people that see me with straight hair see a fake me" 

These all have to do with hair texture, curly hair in particular. It seems that all the people who wrote these secrets have some hangups about their hair texture... (particularly the last two, perhaps not necessarily the first one as much)

Postsecret review 25

It seems that I don't get to these until the very end of the week right before the next week's secrets are posted. I did sort of intend to try and do this one earlier, but it didn't happen until now.

"My son's 17 year old friend wants to screw me. I'm a 46 year old woman. I want to screw him too." (over a postcard that says "oh baby, baby" and with an illustration of Britney Spears, which I had to look up to be sure that it was her)

This is also another one of those secrets that very possibly might not end well if it were to actually happen. Maybe at least they should wait until the kid is 18. Even then, not necessarily a good idea... although for some reason this scenario doesn't exactly seem like it's entirely unheard of.  

"i still don't know how i feel when i think about the fact that i;m the last person you chose to text before you killed yourself. at first i was horrified, and then in a weird way i was flattered but now i'm angry that you put that pressure on me, that i have to live with for the rest of my life." (typewritten text)

This one is rather dark and depressing. I can imagine that it might be rather... unsettling to be in the situation that this secret-writer is in. I do kind of wonder what the person who died said in the text(s) just prior to their death.   

"I'm in my 30's and I induced lactation so I can breastfeed grown men -- It's so intimate and satisfying." (over a grid of photos of women's bare breasts)

This one is bizarre and I can safely say that this is not a thing I'd do myself. I'm not nor do I want to be a milk machine/fountain for various grown men to drink from as they please. I wonder if or how much this woman charges for men to breastfeed from her? You couldn't pay me enough. Well, maybe a few grand per man, and they only get 5 or 10 minutes... yikes, I've just grossed myself out thinking about that entirely theoretical idea. Imagine if men did this in reverse, for women to breastfeed from them...   

"When I was little, I thought the 'milk man' was a glass of milk with arms and legs." (over a collage of a glass of milk with little human arms on the sides and legs)

This one is amusing and I like the collage of this person's childhood idea of what a milkman was.

"I took my family on a road trip during covid and now my daughter will have health issues for the rest of her life. It wasn't worth it." 

That's quite a lesson to have learned the hard way...

"I tell my friends I do coke because I like the way it feels. I do coke because I like how it feels to be thin."

None of my friends have told me that they do coke. But I guess if they did, I should try and remember to inquire about their reasons for doing it. 

"When I'm on a chair lift I look down and guess whether I'd die, live, or break my leg if the chair fell at that exact moment." (over a photo of a ski lift and an arrow pointing to a certain chair labeled "I'd die here")

I like this one because it is rather unique and also has a pleasingly morbid air to it.

"Whenever people ask me for directions I always direct them to a strip club." 

I'm really not a fan of maliciously messing with other people like this just for the heck of it. Those people probably would've just liked to know how to get to their intended destination. If I'm going to intentionally make someone's life more difficult or annoy them, it'll be because they deserve it. 

"When I am behind a bad driver with disabled plates, I think to myself... driving like that is probably how you got those plates..." (over a photo of the wreckage from a car crash)

Snarky and kind of morbid. I... actually have not thought this about people who drive badly and happen to have disabled license plates.

"I imagine that your long nose hairs are spiders crawling out of your nose" (over a photo/image of a nose with spider legs drawn coming out of the nostrils)

I, for one, am glad that I don't spend enough time looking closely enough at people's noses to notice if they have long spideresque nose hairs or not. Long nose hairs are gross, honestly. Trim them. 

Postsecret review 24

Saturday night, secret-reviewing time! Just in time before new secrets get posted tomorrow. So here goes.

"Sucking my boobs is not a turn on. GAME OVER" (with a drawing of Mario)

I feel like maybe this would've been more useful to actually tell the person it refers to? Instead of sending it into Postsecret. Communication is everything when it comes to sex and/or relationships. 

"I wish my life insur[ance] paid for my suicide" (written in like stickers or something over dollar bills -- in denominations of 50, 20, 10 and 5: two of each)

This is kind of a depressing secret. Although perhaps there are methods that would make it look enough like an accident so that life insurance would cover it? 

"I owe my wonderful life to a man I don't even know; the man who stole my wife 40 years ago. To you sir, cheers!" 

I wonder if this means the person remained unmarried after the wife was stolen, or if he married someone else/different instead and then had a wonderful life with them? The whole concept of wife-stealing and affairs and all that fascinates me for some reason.

"I am a very talented hacker but I only use my skills to steal family photo's off of stranger's computers" (over a photo of some people, a couple presumably, with a date of 2-15-2006)

This is sort of a bizarre secret. I wonder what this person's motivation is for going after the family photos on strangers' computers -- what do they like about or get out of it?

"The day I found out I passed the bar exam, a little part of me died. And everybody celebrated." (beneath a graduation photo, presumably from law school, of a woman)

The implication I get from this one is that the person perhaps wanted to pursue a different career instead of law, and it makes me wonder what this other thing was that they presumably had to eschew in order to become a lawyer.

"Whenever I spend more than $1000 at a store, I always steal something small, just to get my moneys worth, I think the sales people know most of the time." (over a tag that says Chloe)

Naughty. 

"I work at an adolescent psych hospital... ...and I have feelings for one of my patients."

This seems like the sort of thing that probably wouldn't end well.

"I need these pills to have sex with my wife but not with my boyfriend" (over a label/packaging from Viagra)

Saucy. I wonder how the wife in this scenario feels, and if she knows about the boyfriend or even has any suspicions. Maybe she is disappointed by the fact that her husband needs to us Viagra with her?

"I ride the train because you fall asleep on my shoulder" (over a Northeast Illinios commuter rail ticket)

This is a very sweet and transit-oriented secret.

"I am more comfortable sleeping with strangers than I am touching myself" (over a closeup photo of a person's, perhaps a woman's, collarbone)

I don't really understand how this could be the case/can't relate to this at all. 

"I think if I were less attractive I'd have a better sense of who I really am"

I wonder how attractive one has to be in order for them to feel that it has hindered their sense of who they really are? Maybe it just means that I'm not attractive enough for that to have happened... I guess the implication here is that other people only like the person for their looks and so a large portion of their identity/sense of self is wrapped up in their appearance?

"I put myself thru college by having sex with men that look like [arrow pointing to an old-ish man in a photo] and every time I see one, I still think to myself 'He looks like a trick'"

a) I wonder if this resulted in catching any STDs, although b) I suppose people do what they have to do, and in this case, good for this person for being able to put themselves through college, even if it came by way of prostitution?