Post Secret
my most beautiful and wonderful daughter turned me onto a website called Post Secrets.
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
it is an extension of the work that includes books (4 to date i believe) and speaking engagements by a man named Frank Warren. (baby, please correct any mistakes i've made in the comment section) it is an incredible website that changes every sunday.
people all over the world mail postcards to frank with their secrets on it. the postcards are all anonymous, and must be true (of course he is trusting you to be honest, but this movement has grown so huge over the past few years that i can't imagine anyone choosing to lie just because they can). the secrets are so incredibly moving that i can't wait for sunday to get here each week. then i try to wait as late in the day as possible before i look at them, because i want to enjoy the feeling i get from reading them.
it's hard to explain what i feel when i read other people's secrets. it's not that i feel superior or voyeuristic; it's more along the lines of realizing that i'm not alone, someone else shares my secret, only they had the guts to share it with the world. they were able to let go of that hidden pain, the hidden shame, that long buried wound.
there have been many postcards over the past few years that have really touched, made me cry even, but this one, (for no apparent reason), really, really got me. i just sat here a stared at it. i was devastated by it. for no reason at all. it makes no sense for it to have affected me that way. but, still, it did.
so go to http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ and enjoy reading them for yourself.
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
it is an extension of the work that includes books (4 to date i believe) and speaking engagements by a man named Frank Warren. (baby, please correct any mistakes i've made in the comment section) it is an incredible website that changes every sunday.
people all over the world mail postcards to frank with their secrets on it. the postcards are all anonymous, and must be true (of course he is trusting you to be honest, but this movement has grown so huge over the past few years that i can't imagine anyone choosing to lie just because they can). the secrets are so incredibly moving that i can't wait for sunday to get here each week. then i try to wait as late in the day as possible before i look at them, because i want to enjoy the feeling i get from reading them.
it's hard to explain what i feel when i read other people's secrets. it's not that i feel superior or voyeuristic; it's more along the lines of realizing that i'm not alone, someone else shares my secret, only they had the guts to share it with the world. they were able to let go of that hidden pain, the hidden shame, that long buried wound.
there have been many postcards over the past few years that have really touched, made me cry even, but this one, (for no apparent reason), really, really got me. i just sat here a stared at it. i was devastated by it. for no reason at all. it makes no sense for it to have affected me that way. but, still, it did.
so go to http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ and enjoy reading them for yourself.