The Power of Blogs

So I was rooting around my Web site stats and I came across one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen. Truly, it is.

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

This whole blog is devoted to posting secrets mailed to the person who authors it. That is not the disturbing part of course. The disturbing part is the secrets.

Everyone has their secrets, of course, but to see evidence of it was unbelievably moving. Like each person on that site has confided in you because you have pinky-sworn NEVER to tell anyone. And they only told you because they will never see you again and you will never see them again. Honestly, that hollow feeling you feel when you get bad news? I kept feeling it, empathizing with the people who felt consumed enough by their secret to have it posted for the world to see.

And if you think about it, they wouldn't be things that you would say, "oh big deal" to or they wouldn't truly be secrets. A true secret is something that shatters you when it is shared. Something that you feel truly ashamed or terrified of. Maybe i'm being melodramatic, but read through the secrets and you'll see what I mean. Wow!