I'm a Blabbermouth

No Secrets

Can you keep your mouth shut? If someone tells you a secret, do you keep it? I have a hard time.  Normally it will leak out to someone. In my defense maybe I didn’t know it was supposed to be a secret. 

We all talk, we all gossip. There isn’t one person in this world who can say they do not. We are all sinners. That being said, some people can keep a secret better than others. 

Why are there secrets in the first place? When someone comes up to you and says, “just between me and you”, or “don’t tell anyone”, it has to be a secret.  

Those We Love

There are certain people in your life who you go to. Mine is “Kay”, I normally tell her everything. If someone tells me something I’ll call her and say, did you know this, or did you hear that. It’s just something I do. I believe everyone has that go to person they tell everything to. It could be your spouse also. Usually, Gary hears everything firsthand from me.

No Secrets Please

Secrets are just problematic. If someone wants to tell me a secret, I should say hold up a minute. If you tell me it won’t be a secret much longer. Up front and honest is the way to go. That way they may change their mind about telling me. In the long run, some things I’m better off not knowing. Just this prior weekend I heard something that was a secret that I would have been better off not knowing about. It’s in the past. Perhaps it should have stayed there. The people involved were long gone so why stir up stuff that’s better left in the past. Buried down deep where no one will find it. Throw some more dirt on it because I don’t want to know. Block it out of my mind. Memories of my childhood. I think I’ve blocked them all out. I have none. Or very few. At times this can be a good thing. There are many reasons people keep secrets. One of them is shame. They don’t want their secret getting out because there would be embarrassment involved.  No one wants to be judged. No one loves to be ridiculed. We all have secrets. We all have skeletons in our closets. We need to keep that door closed. Not every aspect of a person's life should be an open book. There is a reason people hide things. When someone is secretive it may just make others try and pry into their lives. Try and find out what makes them tick. It’s better to be left alone. Not one of us wants a nosy Nelly sticking their nose in where it doesn’t belong. Let's all try to be like this beautiful baby in the photo above. She doesn't have secrets. Shes innocence, honesty, and pure as only a baby can be. Not jaded by the outside world yet. The joy shows on her face. Nothing to hide, nothing but love.

Don't Be Like Me

Don’t be a snitch, or a tattletale. Don’t be like me. Learn how to keep a secret if someone confides in you. I have been known to keep a secret now and again. But on the norm it’s best not to tell me. Just ask my kids. They’ll verify.

There are people that keep secrets and people who don’t. We all live our lives a certain way. The way we choose to. What we do and how we do it is no one's business but our own. Secrets come and secrets go. But is it still really a secret if you tell another person? I believe in telling it is no longer a secret because somebody else knows. So, it’s ok to repeat it. My logic. Take it or leave it. 

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Keep your secrets to yourself. I’ll cover my ears.

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