If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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11 comments:
Like whispering grass?
I'm not sure I entirely agree with that. I think one CAN kind of expect that if anyone tells someone something in confidence, they will not repeat it.
Case in point, time was when I had to do work of a counselling variety. I hard a number of people tell me some quite- interesting- things in confidence. Some of it quite shocking, some of quite enlightening.
Every so often I get tempted to quote some of the testomonies I heard to support blog posts, but in essence I still see myself as being bound.
I would guess that most of the time most people tell someone something in strict confidence, it never stays in TOTAL confidence, because most people will often have people they themselves offload to.
Nevertheless, I think discretion is all important. I'm amazed sometimes at the things people tell me in confidence. And often quite honoured. Things that most often they would never tell a partner, for example. But I know. And I think that's because people know their secrets are safe with me.
I think one can blame the wind, yes, because betraying something you've been told in confidence, or making it so that confidentiality is broken, has to be the ultimate of all betrayals, I don't think there is anything really that can compare to it.
Admittedly, this value is being constantly undermined by our 'Snitch on a Neighbour' society with phone numbers adbvertised on the buses where you can report your neighbours for leaving their bins in fron of your drive.
And a tabloid culture which rewards people for selling other's stories.
The fact is, being entrusted with someone's secrets is an honour, and anyone who breaks that code of honour, should be shunned by society, and yet we seem to have allowed a culture to develop where such people are rewarded.
Perhaps that is the real cause of our apparent moral decline.
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog.
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I love Kahlil Gibran's books
From JHL (who is the latest addition to the queue of people who are unable to quote on my blog):
Good quote. Lovely photo.
Mutley - Very much like that, can't you see it in the foreground?
Crushed - I think the comment is saying be careful who you share your secrets with. Some people are flighty and will not keep secrets. I can give you an example of someone I know who is lovely and doesn't have a nasty bone in her body. She just couldn't keep a secret even if she tried, she can't even keep her own. But she doesn't pretend she would either. I think she is a very good representation of the wind in this quote :-)
DD - I must confess I haven't read any of them.
JHL - Thank You :-)
You'll be reading some secrets of a kind in my book when it is published in September.
Ellee - I really look forward to seeing your book when it comes out :-)
That's one I'll have to think about. The photo is stunning.
Great quote. My Mum always said the only person you can truly trust with your secrets is your dog. :)
Welshcakes - It does get you thinking doesn't it?
Uber - She may be right! One or two people know most of my secrets but I am not sure anyone person knows them all. But that isn't through lack of trust, it is because sometimes people aren't ready to cope with the things you could tell them!
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