The Wonder that is Post Secret

If you're not reading PostSecret, you really should be. Seriously, I give you permission to stop reading this blog and go look up Post Secret. I promise you won't regret it.

The way PostSecret works is that people make a postcard, write their secret on it, and send it in to this guy, Frank Warren, who puts them on PostSecret.com. Part of what makes PostSecret so great is the art that often gets displayed on the postcards, they often don't look like postcards, they are often so personal that they look more like mini pieces of a person's mind.

I discovered PostSecret a few years ago and have been hooked ever since. The vast range of emotions that you will experience while reading the secrets is truly astounding. Sadness, intrigue, pity, regret, relief, happiness, surprise, sympathy. Those are only one tiny fraction of words to describe the secrets that people send in. Often times one secret holds many emotions.

Those are just a few of the emotions displayed in the secrets from this Sunday's edition. I think what I love most about PostSecret is the community it's created. People come together to read the secrets every Sunday, and I think most people can relate to a lot of them. Some more than others obviously, but for the people that send in their secrets, I think it's a relief to have shared your secret in a way that does not hurt those directly around you. It must be quite freeing actually. Also, I think people love PostSecret because there's a chance that someone will have the same secret they have, and in sharing a secret, they may not feel so alone. I've found that I've discovered things about myself by reading the secrets about others. Sometimes I realize I have a secret or feeling that I didn't want to acknowledge outwardly before I read that someone else made into a postcard.

Below I have listed a few secrets from the latest post, one loving, one funny(and mostly true), and one incredibly shocking and scary, and one of triumph and redemption.

Please, go to PostSecret and discover for yourself the wonder of PostSecret. I promise it will change the way you look at things.

Leah

"There are two kinds of secrets: those we keep from others, and those we keep from ourselves"

-Frank Warren