What's one of the hardest secrets you've had to keep?
There's a difference for me between keeping another's confidence and keeping a 'secret'.
I get to hear a whole lot of 'confidences'--I hear a lot of fifth steps and I do what I do for a 'living'.
Sometimes those 'confidences' muddle my 'stuff'.
I get to share that, in confidence, with wisepersoninmylife who's heard plenty of fifth steps himself. And so it goes----on and on and on....
A hard secret I had to keep?
Ya know, my initial thought was when my father told me he'd been diagnosed with lung cancer. He'd asked me not to share that with anyone. It was a tough thing to carry around and a tougher thing to honour that request.
It's a 'secret' I carried for almost thirty years.
He died from a massive coranary almost thirty years ago-- as far as the world is concerned.
And here I am putting it in black and white...............
And here I am...........thinking...........
2 comments:
that's a big one
you are very brave
(reminds me when my mother was dying of cancer and my dad would say to me "do not talk to your mother about death, she is not going to die" and my mother would whisper to me "it's all right, dear, I know I'm going to die but don't tell your father")
Something of an honour to be entrusted with such a big secret. And he was obviously right to trust you.
Oh the poor darlings I, all three of you. So Brave and so sad.
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