Number 23- Dirty Little Secret

Keeping Secrets--Prompt 23
When you confide in a friend, you hope he or she will keep your secret. Do you think there are some secrets you should not keep for a friend? Or do you think that it's always better to keep you promise and tell no one about your friend's secret, even if someone's in danger?


While I believe that friends are good to confide in, I don't believe that one should confide in his or her friends all the time. There are several reasons for this. First of all, when you're making a friend part of the reason you want to get to know that person is because you don't know everything about them. If you met someone at a birthday party and they proceeded to tell you all about their life in the first half our of your friendship you would probably get a little annoyed and uninterested in that person. Therefore, making yourself a little misterious can be a better way to lengthen a convresation and thus develop a friendship. Secondly, people have their own burdens to carry. If you are constantly dumping all your problems on someone else and that someone is also going through some difficult times you might just overload them with responsibility and stress which is neither healthy for the friendship, or healthy for the friend physically.
Now suppose that you were on the other side of the situation. You are the friend who is being confided in. You are now abliged to keep the secrets of the one who sought your counsel and secrecy. As long as their secret isn't bringing harm to another person, or breaking the law of God, you should keep their secret.