Secrets

I am a man in the mid 50's living in India. I choose to remain anonymous to my readers, but that does not mean you cannot reach me. you can click on my pseudonym above and send me a message via the telegram app or you can email me at the mail id, mystery@pm.me

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I confess. Ever since childhood I have been fascinated by the very idea of secrets. The things that we hold close to our heart and don't easily share with others. But when we do share them with someone, it means that person becomes special, a close friend, a confidante. Psychoanalysis tells us that _if we do not share them_, they stay inside us, eating us up from within. They become the cause for psychopathology. So we pay people money to share our secrets with them. We also bind them with strict norms that would make it unethical for them to share information that we entrust them with. Since it's early times, the Church was built on the idea of confiding secrets through confessions.

What are secrets and why do we have them?

The obvious answer is that secrets are thoughts that we share with only a select few if we share them at all. Some secrets are just facts about the world that we choose to keep secret, like location of secret defence bases or a secret formula for a newly discovered drug. Whats more interesting are private things we dare not tell others because it would bring about shame.

The first type of information is valuable and sought after by governments and other companies who use espionage. Its the kind of information Snowden leaked or you might find on Wikileaks. The second type of information is rarely of value to anyone else other than oneself, apart from gossip mongers and blackmailers. Even they find it interesting only because it brings shame.