Secrets

I mentioned the PostSecret site elsewhere, but I think it deserves its own thread. It's "an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard," and I've now made somewhat of a habit out of reading the new secrets that are posted each Sunday.

Maybe some of them are fake, maybe some are too extreme to even want to read, maybe it just satisfies the curiosity in its readers, but there's also the emotional effect it seems to have on people. Every so often, I'll read one that really hits home for me, or just gives me such a strong reaction, or sometimes it's just really cute, but I've started saving my favorites since there doesn't seem to be a full archive of them. I wanted to share them here, and maybe some of you will start following the site.

Also, I thought, maybe you'll want to share your own secrets. There, or even here.

I found an old thread that Fame had started, called "Reveal your darkest secret"...I thought it was brave of him to share his own, and I still don't know if I could share a real secret. But I guess PostSecret gives you the chance to anonymously shout one from the rooftops by way of the Internet.

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Interesting Gina. Some touching and some amusing. I like the Valentines to Dad and the person who's singing in the car and IF someone was in the back seat.


TIS

I love the one about throwing away your old contact lenses. What a lovely thought.

I really like these, if you go to a bookstore or library look through the postsecret books for people leaving secrets in them. I've only found 1, but I've only looked once.

I don't like that there's no archive on the site. Just this week's and then they're gone. I'm never going to pay $30 for the book either.

TIS, the singing in the car one was actually very accurate for me...I've done that on multiple occasions, where I get really into a song, then suddenly consider that someone might be watching me from the backseat - sort of like "The Hitch-Hiker" on the Twilight Zone.

SB, when I throw away my disposable lenses, I'm usually just amused by how they look when they dry up, or something silly like that - isn't this a much better perspective?

LN, I heard about the secrets being in the books! That's really cool you found one. I kept thinking I'd find an archive somewhere, but when I realized I probably wouldn't, I started saving the ones I like. I wish they posted them all. I found this on Wikipedia:

Thanks Gina, that rss thingy will last me about a day as a blaze through the secrets.

Maybe you should resist and savor them!

But how does that RSS work? Are you able to look back all the way to the very beginning, or does it not start "archiving" them until you sign up?