The key is in the lock, but hasn’t been turned in years—maybe decades.
Is your inclination to turn the key and see what has been hidden, or would you rather trust that there is good reason to leave the secret locked away?
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I know that we all have secrets that are locked away. Sometimes, when a person reveals one of these secrets to me, I feel embarrassed and really don’t want to hear it. I would rather think of the relationship with that other person without acknowledging the knowledge. However, in thinking it over, I realize that it is a case of trust from the other person who wants to let me know that it is/has been an important factor in her life. I carry it with me into our future life together and integrate it into my understanding of that person’s attitudes and way of life.
I like Patt Behler’s take on hearing the secrets of others. The question posed made me wonder if there are secrets of my own I haven’t thought about in years. Or maybe even secrets that are so locked away that I don’t even remember or know about them. I guess that, if I know what my secret is, I would decide on a case by case basis whether to unlock and contemplate it. If there are secrets I have totally suppressed, I don’t know how to begin to find out about them so I can unlock them. Perhaps, in dealing with some other problem, the memories come back and I see a connection. Or sometimes something external can connect and make us aware of what we have locked away. A friend recently watched the movie “What the Bleep Do We Know?” and it triggered some difficult but positively life altering self exploration and growth.
Margaret, thanks for your response. I didn’t think of “self-secrets” that I may have held or still do hold. I’m sure that it is true that discovering them after a period of time or in a specific situation can be self revealing. I can also see that by doing so, it may resolve something in the present with a worthwhile answer to determine the ongoing path in one’s life.