I've been reading the Post Secret blog for a week now and I am blown away by it. I've read one of the Post Secret books and it's amazing, incredible, heart-breaking, breath-taking, horrifying, hilarious, intense, and hopeful. If you've never heard of Post Secret, go to http://postsecret.blogspot.com and look at the postcards. People mail thousands of secrets per week and on Sundays the blog has new ones. There are threads on there with more pictures, several thousands of secrets that people put in anonymously or semi-anonymously. Please go read and if you'd like, you can mail in a postcard/several with your secrets on them.
I've taken the last few days to decide that I want to send in some things. I thought I didn't have any secrets, but the more I thought, the more I realized that, like everyone else, I have dozens. Little thoughts I've never told anyone before, feelings I've harbored without mentioning, and late night thoughts that keep me awake in the wee sma's. I've written down several and am in the process of finding things to decorate my cards with.
So why am I telling you that I'm sending things in to Post Secret? I'm not wanting you to figure out my secrets. But I did want you to know that if you have secrets too hurtful, painful, or silly to tell anyone else, you can send them in and know that someone's read them. And who knows? They may put yours in a later book or on the blog.
I think it's an amazing project and the stories that come from these postcards show that it has helped people. A creative endeavor with which you impart some of yourself is healing. It's brilliant. Everyone's secrets - anonymously. Binding people together when they realize that we aren't all alone...and that we are broken beings in search of something.
Please visit Post Secret.
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