Can you keep a secret?

United States
October 21, 2007 6:03pm CST
Or do you tend to blab? I'm pretty good at keeping secrets -- learned my lessons from blabbing when I was younger! How 'bout you?
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@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
22 Oct 07
I love having secrets, to me having someone tell you a secret of their own is a big compliment, if I am given a secret I never give it up, it is known being known amongst your friends as one that they can talk to you about anything, I never divulge a secret simply because then you don't have it anymore, I just love having that thing that you know other people don't know....
@estherlou (5015)
• United States
22 Oct 07
I find that being someone that others come to and know they can trust is very nice. Sometimes it is difficult to not gossip, but it is better not to.
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• United States
22 Oct 07
i have never blabbed a secret before...ever. i know if i told someone something in confidence and asked them to please keep it to themselves and i found out that they didnt and had told everybody..i would be hurt and devastated and quite possibly humiliated. all of which i DO NOT want to go thru..so why would i want to do that to a friend?? i wouldnt, i wont. secrets are safe with me.
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@jazgottt (1180)
• Poland
22 Oct 07
Hi gwendovere. I can keep a secret. I'm quite secretive person and I don't like to talk about my plans so it is nothing difficult for me to keep a secret. Mine sercret or my friend's secret. I don't like to blab about things friends have told me and about thing I'd like to do. Even my bofriend or my sister don't know everything about me. I don't like when people try to ask me about private things or about my friends. take care. jazgottt
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@poohgal (6845)
• Singapore
22 Oct 07
Hello there. Like you, I learned painful lessons during my younger days. I learned never to leak a secret, to talk less and listen more, and not to assume. In the past, if someone told me a secret and did not tell me that it was a secret, I would assume it is not. If given the opportunity, I will tell someone about it. (I do not deliberately search for opportunity) Now, I do not tell other people about things my friends tell me. I keep them all as secrets to avoid misunderstandings. =D
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@laurika (4532)
• United States
22 Oct 07
I think I can keep secrets pretty good, specialy when the person is important for me.
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• United States
29 Oct 07
I can keep a secret when needed yes. But I can do it better when I'm allowed to tell ONE other person...like my hubby for example. Once I say it once I get it out of my system LOL. But I've got secrets now that I'm keeping for people too that I haven't told anyone else. It's hard sometimes but they're not mine to tell.
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• United States
23 Oct 07
I am very good at keeping secrets. That is one part of my character that my friends really trust about me.
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• United States
24 Oct 07
It depends... if someone is in "danger" (I define "danger" in a lot of different ways) then I let the secret out... if it is really close to someone I know (that tells me the secret) then I'll keep it obviously.. but let me just tell you something, high schools are full of gossiping liars. Gossiping smiley: :-"
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@davido (1623)
• Canada
23 Oct 07
I learn lessons a lot from other peoples life since ive been young, so i dont just say unnessasry things mostly about what other people tell me or what i learnt about them. its a matter of responsibility to keep other peoples secrets mostly when they see a friend in you and tell you about themselves.
@Buchi_bulla (8298)
• India
11 Nov 07
I never reveal secrets, not even in my dream. I have seen how people were affected, when their secrets were made public. It is horrible. They confide in us and tell the secret. Why should you go against the confidence? I will never do that.
@zidlore (251)
• Philippines
23 Oct 07
Yes. I'm really annoyed to persons whom you trust so much that you share your deepest, darkest secrets then later they'll tell them to everyone they knew, so I always do my best to be not among them.
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@THKOhio (329)
• United States
30 Oct 07
I am usually good at keeping secrets. The only caveat I give people when they begin to tell me a secret is that I WILL share it with my husband. He and I do not keep secrets from each other, even someone else's. So, if they don't want him to know it, it's better that they not mention it to me, either.
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@Unl3ashed (110)
• Belgium
11 Nov 07
i've learned that you don't get anything in life by blabbing. why would you tell other peoples deepest secrets. because it makes you feel better. well, i can tell you that other people will start to hate you for that...
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• United States
22 Oct 07
I have always been good at keeping secrets...I think it's because I always have had to keep secrets with my family. And all my friends always come to me when they need to vent or anything come to me often when they need something..They know there is nothing they can't tell me without it ever getting out...I find this a really good quality about myself..And I hope my friends that I turn to do the same for me...
• United States
24 Oct 07
HI gwen, I find that I am the keeper of lots of secrets in my lifetime. People feel free telling me their secrets because I don't blab. I have just never felt the need to tell someone else's secret. No matter what, I never tell. I have lots of friends of varying ages that need someone to talk to, and need to know that things will not be revealed. I am very comfortable knowing that I can accomplish this task. I know that my friends trust me totally. Happy posting..