Thursday, October 13, 2005

My theory about secrets. Someone tells you a secret, and makes you promise not to tell anyone about it. How often do you keep that promise? Most of the time you'll just tell someone else anyway, of course subject to that person's promise not to tell anyone else about it. Of course, that is extremely justifiable, cos you absolutely trust that person, and you know that person is not a blabbermouth, so the secret is safe. Yet you forget that most people do have that one person that they absolutely trust with their secrets, so when you tell that one person, you take the risk that they'll tell at least that one other person that secret, who might in turn pass it on to his own absolutely trusted non-blabbermouth secret-keeper. Thus the secret is not really something nobody else knows but rather one that nobody admits to knowing. Which is not really different from being a non-secret anyway. Extrapolating therefrom, there's no point hiding any secrets from me cos I'll find out sooner or later anyway. So all you enlightened ones should just skip all the interim steps and just tell me all your secrets.

-- tee @ 4:13 pm |