Can you keep a secret?

A secret is not a secret if you tell it to someone. The safest way to keep a secret is to not let anyone know.:P But if I have to take a secret, I will try my best to keep it. But don't ask me to bet my life or soul or something. :P

I'm horrible at keeping secrets and everyone who knows me is aware of that so seldom tell me any. That's fine with me though because I hate keeping things from others, especially family members.

I have never been much into telling secrets or hearing them from others. I have to ask myself, what is the point? So, if I have a secret and I tell someone and expect them not to tell anyone else, what does that mean? I haven't a clue. If someone has a secret, why do I need to know it? This game of telling secrets is beyond me and I can find little use for it. In my veiw, there are no secrets, only pretending.

I can't keep secrets as firm as it is. Even though the person treats me to a sumptuous lunch or dinner, it is of no use. How do I deal with secrets? Well, if someone was to tell me his/her secrets, I keep mum and when the time that someone talks about something related to the content of the secret, I will just let the cat out of the bag.

Hello, ladyluna!:-) To your first question that will I keep something as secret, after giving my word, if that keeping secret will cause problems?: Whenever somebody asks me to give a word to keep the information, they are going to share, as secret, I ask them either not to share in first place or it must be something that is not going to alarm me to be concerned for anybody's harm in any definition, be it spiritual, financial, emotional, physical or social. After they agree then I allow them to share that with me. Shortly, I only accept them sharing with me if that is something very personal of their or they accept me sharing with appropriate people. Only 2,3 times people refused to share after this warning. To your second question of dealing with secrets in general: I try to keep something secret as long as it is supposed to be secret, no matter what. I am glad that people in family, at job, in locality, university and my friends, generally consider me a very trustworthy person and share with me all types of their personal and otherwise information, dreams, problems and fears from most harmless to most sacred, secret and intimate matters. I enjoy a special central position in my family, both own and extended, which makes people come to me to share their problems in extreme confidentiality, mostly for seeking help, advice or just for a listening ear. I have kept them all buried deep in my heart. I am sometimes surprised when they act in a way with others, in front of me, that belies the fact that I know but I keep my face spot. My friends share some of very intimate problems with me (both sides of a couple, every side with his/her own story) just seeking advice, help, or to speak out their heart or just to have someone lend ear to vent anger. Sometimes, it happens that someone will tell me something about another person which I already knew but I'll keep my face spot as if I didn't know it. I have also many secrets of people who turned against me but I never used a word to my own advantage by pouring out their secrets. They have also tested me on some occasions by later changing the story in front of others (even against me) and trying to see if I'll object to them by narrating the actual account but I never defended me by revealing the actual story that was supposed to be secret. The most difficult part about keeping a secret for me is not to share it with my wife. My wife knows almost everything about me and I share everything with her but the secrets of others. She is my partner in every sense and I feel uncomfortable not sharing with her but I could never. These are the only things she don't know what I know. The funny part of how I deal with secrets is my relationship with my GOD. I share everything with the GOD as I talk to HIM on every issue. How funny it is that I don't share those secrets even with the GOD. I only satisfy my guilt of not sharing by realizing and reassuring myself that GOD already knows the matter so I don't need to share:-)

I'm pretty good at keeping secrets in general. Although it can put you in some very awkward situations, where you are forced to either keep your word to the person whose secret you have and lie on their behalf to others, or betray their secret. An example that comes to mind is when I was a teenager and a friend of mine ran away from home. Of course I knew where he was, but I forced to lie to his parents and mine to keep his secret safe. The only thing that I could do in that situation was let his family know he was okay, and do my best to convince to return home, which he did after a couple of weeks. Situations like that are hard to be in. No matter what you are lying to someone and there really is no "right" way to handle it from a moral standpoint... at least by my definition.

Though a difficult task, but i can keep a secret

Well,keeping secret is not a big deal to me.And i do can keep secret if anybody shared her/his secret and told me to keep it.Anyway's,its not mine,all i need to do is to keep it.Lol...I didnt bother at all as long as it wont caused any problems to me and my loveones.Unless,if i know that he/she killed someone...Nah...Thats a different story...

i don't mean to toot my own horn here, but i am probably one of the best people in the world to tell a secret to. i never tell anyone else anything that someone has told me in confidence. i don't believe in telling other people's secrets. i am a VERY trustworthy person. The only time i have ever told a secret was when one of my friends was being raped by her step-father. There were quite a few people who heard it...one day she was screaming at some friends who were giving her $hit that she had told this secret to, and she yelled "How would you like it if your own father was raping you that you lived with?" This was the first i had heard of it. my friend, Chelsea, and i looked at each other in shock. Later on, she called me and we talked about it and decided we had to tell. i was only 12 at the time. i told my mom, my mom called the school. The girl got help. The step-father was arrested and she was taken out of that situation. i will never feel guilty about telling that secret.

I am very good at keeping a secret. Probably more than I should be since I have all this people - sometimes not even friends - that feel that they can confide in me and I end up knowing things that I didn't even what to know LOL If I find that the secret is something that could harm someone I usually prefer to ask the person not to tell me because if it's serious enough I might have to break it. The funny thing about this is that I don't really like to know secrets that much. I know we all have our secrets but I prefer if people generally keep them to themselves. But somehow people tend to tell me theirs anyways , go figure - with so many people out there that love to know secrets they have to come and tell them to me LOL

There 're somethings we can reveal . There''re somethings we need conceal . To the right person , sometimes we need reveal secret to him but need the right time . To whom that he doesn't wanna reveal its secret , that doesn't mean he is not honest .

Yes it is difficult to keep a secret. But, once you have a secret to be kept, you should be able to keep it. You should be faithful to whoever had shared his or her secret. I personally can keep secret of others. I do not generally break the promise. I try my best to be that way.

Keeping a secret is only one of the several strategies that you can use to maintain your personal privacy. Don't invade other privacy by revealing them and knowing their secrets, it will just break your relationship with your company or friendship. Be serious with keeping a secret.

I think the best way of keeping a secret is keeping away from the secret.So many times when I was choosen to be told a secret,I would refuse it.And I would say"thank you for trusting me,but a secret is a serect.Just keep it in your heart and don't tell anyone.Then it will be a secret forever".Keeping secret is really a bad suffering.That's my opinion.

I am the type of person who will not tell a secret, but it will bother me inside for a bit because it's something I know and no one else does, in some cases. If it could cause problems for me, I would still probably hold onto the secret, but maybe try a different tact: try to get the person who told me the secret to either come clean about it or to tell the secret to the people who they could be hurting or causing problems for.

i found the secret to keeping things secret! don't tell anyone anything you don't want to get out. i don't like people saying i want to tell you something but you can't tell anyone. i usually say don't tell me. not because i can't keep a secret but most likely they have already told someone else and i don't want to be in the middle of someone's drama. i know when i have something that i don't want anyone to know i don't say anything.

hi ladyluna to be honest, i'm not good in keeping secret i don't mean to telling the secret on purpose, i've just forgot which should i keep it that's why now i prefer to know nothing, better than one day that secret would bring me troubles it's ok if my friends don't tell me any as long as i can have a peaceful day away from conflicts.. thanks.. ^^

I would not keep a secret which is no longer a secret but an open secret. I am one forgetful person. Whatever goes into the left ear evaporates immediately through the right ear. So in a way, I am trustworthy with secrets. I do not know what they are in fact.

I would feel more dishonest telling secrets than keeping secrets because I've given my word and promised to keep the information my friends confide in me. I think it's good to be able to keep secrets because then people will tell you things and you'll know more about them, and why they do the things they do. Also I expect to be treated the same way in return, that is, if I do tell people my secrets I trust that they will keep them secret because I keep my mouth shut around theirs. If they leak it I won't ever trust them again :/

Until and unless the secret is harming somebody close to you or in general also the secret should not be revealed. And if by revealing the secret it is going to put the person in trouble it should never be revealed. I know that the cancerian are well of secret, you can pour anything inside them but cant take out from them. It is you to decide whether the secret told you in trust is harming anybody. if yes that person should be notified.