You Are As Burdened As your Secrets

One of the most courageous thing an individual can display is expressing a sercret, and then letting go. But which is harder: telling or letting go? The answer may lie in a book at your local Borders. A post card with no name is tucked between page 78 and 79 has a very dark or uplifting message. In it, is someone’s burden that has been carried around for a very long time.

It cannot be told to trusted individual or even to their pets. Instead it’s shared online with other strangers who say, “me too. I felt that too.” There at our most vulnerable moment we are human. The virtue of courage is the ability to be vulnerable to others and the willingness to allow others do the same.

The online space for sharing our secrets is postsecrets.com. Frank Warren is responsible for thousands of people’s ability to share and forgive themselves, others, or circumstances.

If you don’t know this site yet, then it’s time to have a ‘me too’ moment with someone you never met or ever will know.

mahalo.