Are you good keeping secrets?

Mexico
April 11, 2011 4:14pm CST
I must admit that I wasn't good at keeping secrets. I felt guilty and the same subject stuck in my head until I felt the need to tell someone the secret that I was keeping. Now I am a better person keeping secrets. When someone trust me and ask me to keep his/ her secret and I say yes I try my best not to think about this thing. I think that's the best way to keep a secret. Stop thinking about this subject, acting like if you don't know anything about this thing. Specially you need to learn this when you are keeping a friends's secret. And what about you: are you good keeping secrets? ALVARO
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@hurtnsyd (10)
12 Apr 11
To be honest, I'm a blabbermouth so I'm not really good at keeping secrets. But I learned that when I write it on a journal where nobody can see but me, it makes me stop blurting the secrets I know.
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• Mexico
12 Apr 11
Hi hurtnsyd: That's a good way to deal with this problem. When I was like 13 I usually say, I don't want to hear it. Don't tell me anything because I don't want to tell it. I don't trust in myself so I knew I have to improved this. ALVARO
@misc11 (384)
• United States
11 Apr 11
I am not a good secret keeper and don't like when people tell me them because I can't tell anyone. It depends on the kind of secret. I don't like when people tell you something that is bad in their life and you feel like you need to help but they tell you not to tell anyone, I always find myself stressing over what to do. Just simple secrets, I would say I am not the best secret keeper because I don;t like being the only person that knows and always want to tell someone. I just tell my sisters and I know it won't go any further. Thank goodness for sisters!
• Mexico
12 Apr 11
Hi misc: It seems that we think the same way on this subject. Secrets are worst to keep specially when you know that something is wrong with a person you love or when it's about a problem in a relationship. I talk to my mother or my sister in the case I think I need to talk. ALVARO
• United States
14 Apr 11
When I was little I didn't know how to keep a secret .But in time I learned. Now I can keep a secret Very well. I agree, the best way to keep a secret is to forget about it. Don't let the subject bubble up to the surface.
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• United States
15 Apr 11
It is not a sacrifice , it is second nature to me now! But it did take a shock for me to be this way. I ratted out my dad when he was trying buy flowers for my mom. I remember saying " but I didn't tell her what Type of flowers they were." many years later I kept two secrets. My mom and my sister Both bought each other tea sets. they were both surprised that Christmas.They were shocked to learn I knew about both and didn't tell.
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• Mexico
14 Apr 11
Hi sarah ruth beth: Oh, when I was a little kid I can keep a secret. I get some troubles but as you grow up you learn the importance of keeping someone trsut. And if you want to be loyal to your friends it's necessary to make some sacrifices like be quiet when they ask you to do it. ALVARO
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• Mexico
15 Apr 11
Hi sarah: That's a really nice story. Sometimes, at leats for me, keeping a secret could be a sacrifice. Not with every secret, but some of them are more difficult to keep. Thanks for your answer again. ALVARO
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• Philippines
29 Apr 11
hi starsailover! you've managed to learn the art of keeping secrets. hehe i'd rate myself as being good at keeping secrets (eversince i could remember) for as long as i don't have to lie. because i definitely suck at having to tell a lie so as much as possible i don't try. keeping secrets is like keeping the trust because that's how much it is worth. even to young kids, some secrets are sacred. for siblings, some secrets formed a pact. for others, some secrets are so vital, they hold a key to either success or ruin. when i was a kid, i was the guardian of my older sisters' secrets. secrets that if our parents had known, they would have been so mad at my sisters and myself included. but as a guardian of secrets, i held myself responsible too for whatever consequence the keeping of a secret will bring. and some secrets can bring stress that you just wanna shove it at the back of your mind and keep it there and try not to think about it. just as the way you keep yours. hehe as far as i know, i've kept all the secrets entrusted to me. fortunately, some secrets are not to be safeguarded forever. and it's quite a relief to be relieved of those secrets when the owners owned them back once more.
• Philippines
1 May 11
boys will be boys. hehe
• Mexico
21 May 11
You are so right. That's so typical when we are little ones. ALVARO
• Mexico
29 Apr 11
Hi myles narvaez: I just have to say, congratulations to you. As you have mentioned keeping secrets is really and art and trust and confidence are in risk if you can't keep a secret. I remebered that when I was a kid I keep my brothers secrets but I tell them and so does my brother to my secrets when we were fighting . ALVARO
@voldrox (7191)
• India
13 Apr 11
Hi Starsailover, When i was in a relationship i would tell almost anything to my girlfriend, except the ones i required to tell no one at any cost though. But i am glad that now i can keep everything to myself. I feel better that way, because i can be of help when some friends wanna share something with me that they don't want others to know and i don't tell that to anyone now. However, i have got a friend here at mylot, whom i can never trust with keeping anything to himself.
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
14 Apr 11
The best part now is that i don't need to tell her what i am doing, or for that matter i sometimes had to ask her for a few things, but nothing now. :) It was straining me too, but i was trying my best to keep up our relationship but she would not hold. She was being so immature, and i think it was the best thing that happened, she certainly was getting heavy on me, and this thing happened for good. I am going to stay single now, because my true angel is waiting out there somewhere for me, who would make me feel comfortable and reassured, so unlike my ex.
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• Mexico
14 Apr 11
HI voldrox: It's nice that you find the possitive things about being single and yes, the perfect match for you is waiting. Thanks for your answer. ALVARO
• Mexico
14 Apr 11
Hi voldrox: Thanks for your answer. I think that the best part of being in arelationship is that you can share your secrets and also plan things with another person. So now you have turned papers and you are the one who listen and keep the secrets? That's nice. Have a nice day. ALVARO
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@DChow102 (25)
• United States
12 Apr 11
I use to be pretty horrible at keeping secret. Maybe it was because I loved to gossip, but now when people tell me secret, it's locked in tight in the back of my head. Usually if someone tells me a secret, I usually forget about it, but if it's like a huge secret, I might leak it to someone who does know that person. I sometimes feel guilty when people tell me their secrets, but also happy that they believe I am trustworthy enough to have secrets told to me.
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• Mexico
13 Apr 11
Hi DChow: wow, yopu sound like me. Well, I didn't like gossiping but I was terrible at this point. For a reason, I felt the temptation to tell the things, maybe because it's something it supposed you don't have to do; it makes that you want to reveal the secret. But now, just like you I try to forget the secrets because the most you think about them, the most you feel the need to tell someone about this thing. ALVARO
• Mexico
21 May 11
Thanks again for participating on my discussion. Have a nice day. ALVARO
• United States
15 Apr 11
Exactly!
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
12 Apr 11
Hi starsailover, believe or not I could say I'm a person which is good in keeping secrets. Due to this my friends are willing to share their secrets with me. but I had heard certain so-called secrets from others sometimes. Maybe some of them had told the same secret to people that can't keep their promise not to reveal it Happy posting
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• Mexico
12 Apr 11
Hi ikbooi: Well that's great, specially for your fiends that can cound on you to keep your secrets. In my case, when I have to tell a secret I will only tell this to one or two persons maximum or it won't be a real secret ALVARO
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
13 Apr 11
Yeah starsailover, it would be an authentic secret if sharing the secret with a friend who is as dumb as an oyster. If I couldn't get someone reliable to share my secret I usually would like to express my feeling in my diary This is the only as well as easy way to feel relief
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• Mexico
13 Apr 11
Hi ikbooi: That's definetly a nice strategy. Thanks for your answer. ALVARO
@katie0 (5203)
• Japan
12 Apr 11
Very good, there are secrets that goes way back as more than ten years ago and the person even is not my friend. But by that time I said "I promise". I would hate if someone tell my secret, when I hate too much someone doing to me I can't do.
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• Mexico
12 Apr 11
Hi katie: That's great. Simply amazing I think that you have this ability. And I say ability because is not that easy, at least for me to keep someone's secret that easy. ALVARO
• Mexico
21 May 11
Hi katie: I had this same problem before. I trust in everything people told me, but as you get older you understand you can't trust in everyone. If you had been innocent for doing this you don't have to feel bad because you haven' done anything wrong. This tell me that you are good by nature. Thanks for your answer. ALVARO
@katie0 (5203)
• Japan
20 Apr 11
If I have one quality and by one maybe the only one, hahahaha, is loyalty. I've trusted the wrong people and I think it's the most hurtful things that ever happened to me, I wouldn't do this to an enemy, I think it's really painful. When is too much to me, thank God I learn the lesson so I can't do to other, not even an enemy. But I could punch an enemy in the face hahahah, I wouldn't be traumatized if someone did that! Now lying, taking my trust and throwing in the garbage or worst making up a lie about me, that reaaaally makes me angry hahaha. Always really nice talking to ya.
@keshia2007r (2880)
• United States
12 Apr 11
I am good at keeping secrets because I'm still keeping secrets about myself that I plan on taking with me to the end. I think its important to be able to trust someone. I've always been the stop, observe and listen type. Never been the run and tell it all type. So I still have secrets that a few friend told me that I've never told anybody else. Its not my job to one, be dishonest to my friend, two, talk about them behind their backs. Three I do believe in what goes around comes around. So I wouldn't share a secret about a friend then get mad when she shares secrets about me.
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• Mexico
12 Apr 11
Hi keshia: These are really good reasons why we have to keep a secret, specially the secrets of those who are our friends. It's about loyalty. And I knoe we sometimes need to be strong to keep a secret when it's related to a big problem for example and the same subject comes to your mind over and over again and you feel worried about your friend for example. ALVARO
• Mexico
13 Apr 11
Hi online bux maker: So you are a misteryous boy lol . That's nice, we all have some secrets. Thanks God people can't read minds. ALVARO
@Kirinx (1688)
• United States
12 Apr 11
Well I would say Im pretty good at keeping secrets because most of them I totally forget about anyway lol. One way to keep your mind off of telling someone's secret is to think "Would I like it if someone did that to me" and another way is just to do something fun to get your mind off of it.
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• Mexico
12 Apr 11
HI kirinx: I prefer to do the second advice: try to forget. It works better for me because when I think about a secret, it makes me feel worried and it feels terrible to be the only one to know this thing, specially when we are talking about a problem or something bad that needs to be solved ALVARO
• Mexico
13 Apr 11
Hi online bux maker: It's difficult yes and this has happened to me too but if you try it you can forget. At least it work for me. ALVARO
• United States
12 Apr 11
I would like to say YES I am good at keeping secrets, but it depends on what the secret is. If it is something very serious then YES I would keep my mouth completely shut. If its BS Gossip then I would have a hard time keeping my mouth shut. So I guess it all depends on what the secret is.
• Mexico
12 Apr 11
Hi interactive learning: You have mentioned something very important. It depends on the secret and the importance you give it to it that you are a good secret keeper or not. Thanks for adding another important fact to discuss in our thread. Have a nice day. ALVARO
• Mexico
13 Apr 11
Hi interactive larning: I wasn't that good so I prefered to not listen to the things that I'd tell to someone else. With some practice everyone can be better at this. ALVARO
@shrijsr (574)
• Bangalore, India
17 Apr 11
Hello friend, I too was the kind of the person who never kept any secrets within myself! Not that I wanted to spread things, but I thought that everyone around me are my friends and i need to tell them whatever i knew! I changed this attitude recently when one such a thing which had to be kept as a secret was told to others and it led to a small problem to one of my friend! I still regret for being such an Idiot! I wish i had realized this a little before! Good day!
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• Mexico
17 Apr 11
Hi shrijsr: Yes, the worst part of telling a secret is when there was a negative consequence because of this mistake. I used to think that all the persons around me were my friends so I can share with them some of the secrets I have. Experience teach us that when someone tell you a secret he/ she trust in you and specially when we are talking about the secrets of our friends we need to be very careful. ALVARO
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@mallu30 (461)
• India
19 Apr 11
I always good at keeping secrets. Because I fear of losing confidence. If someone shares an information and asked to keep secret we have to follow it. On believing only he would have disclosed it. We do not breach the trust and lose confidence.
• Mexico
19 Apr 11
Hi mallu: Well, it's nice that you always remember this thing. It's more important confidence and your loyalty to someone than talk because of a moment of temptation. Thanks for your answer. Have a nic eday. ALVARO
@eyalw321 (28)
• Israel
21 May 11
you was would me do not keep secrets mentioned should not think about it you'r right
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• Mexico
21 May 11
Hi eyalw: I think it was a little bit difficult to read your message but I understand what you mean. If you want to keep a secret you better forget about it or you'll be thinking too much about it that you'll feel temptated to talk about this subject. ALVARO
@r0ck_r0ck (1952)
• India
12 Apr 11
Im good with keeping secrets, and i dont feel guilty about it, actually i dont think there is something to feel guilty about, there are certain things that is not meant to share with everyone, like if i promise someone to keep a secret i do it off-course to the point where it doesnt effect someone negatively.
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• Mexico
12 Apr 11
Hi rock rock: Well I have to say congratulations because you know, one needs to have a good self control to keep secrets and don't feel the need to tell someone specially when we are keeping a big secret. Thanks for your answer. ALVARO
@apples99 (6556)
• United States
12 Apr 11
I'm pretty good at keeping secrets but I don't like to keep secrets I mean if a friend ask me not to tell somthing I won't, but I think keeping secrets can be bad depending on how serious the secret is, thankfully I don't have many secrets to keep.
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• Mexico
13 Apr 11
Hi apples: You are right. First congratulations for that. It's not so simple to keep a secret and I understand why you don't like this. It's a charge period. And it's uncomfortable sometimes to know something you can't reveal. ALVARO
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
14 Apr 11
Based on the fact that I really don't talk to a lot of people, I think that I am good at keeping secrets. Throughout my life I've been one of the people that my friends turn to when they need to get something out and there has never been a time that I've broken their trust. The reason that I don't talk about the secrets that people have told me is because of the fact that I wouldn't want them to talk about my secrets if I needed someone to share one with.
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• Mexico
14 Apr 11
HI doranmwin: I don't have a big list of friends so loyalty and trust is very important for me. I don't want that my friends stop trusting in me. When we grow up we've learnt to value this. Thanks for your answer. ALVARO
@kingparker (9673)
• United States
12 Apr 11
I won't brag about it, but if it is necessary, and it is an insistent request from my friend, I would definitely keep this secret myself, and not willing to tell anyone else. That is the basic promise you had for your friend, don't you? And I think we must keep it until the end.
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• Mexico
13 Apr 11
Hi king parker: That's a really good decision. We would probably feel at some poiunt that this is a difficult promise to accomplish, specially when there's someone talking about this same subject but we should keep our loyalty to our friends. ALVARO
@gelayagui98 (1336)
• Australia
13 Apr 11
For me I don't know if I am the one person you can trust about secret, because if I know that the secret matters need to patch up, I find ways to how it is resolved. But if it is really a secret that it is not complicated , I can kept it.
• Mexico
14 Apr 11
Hi yelayagui: Well thanks for your answer. Have a nice day. ALVARO
@fedeborgo (104)
• Argentina
12 Apr 11
i never had a problem with keeping peoples secrets... i also thinks that is good to know what peoples hides on its back..
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• Mexico
13 Apr 11
Hi fedebrogo: Well, that's really nice. Thanbks for your answer. ALVARO