I've been spending most of my recent weeks with Rachel, Emma, and Laura. Emma and Laura are two girls from England who are interning at the same theatre as Rachel and I are. Rachel and I became friends last month after I had an adventure that involved alcohol, suspenders, and Williamsburg. All three of them are really awesome. (Hi girls!)
I think I'm going to change directions of this post though.
I had decided when I first started writing in this blog that I wasn't going to give out the address, that it was going to be a blog for me and if people happened to find it then so be it. Then I decided that I should give it to one person who knew me in real life so that I would feel like someone knew about it and then it wasn't really a secret. So I told a friend from school, and my cousin, two people in completely separate parts of my life. Then, I told Rachel about it (I think I was drunk, I'm not quite sure though). Then I asked permission to use people's names in it. Then I mentioned that I had a blog to other people, but didn't give them the link. And I have come to this conclusion:
I suck at keeping (most of) my own secrets.
I'm really good at keeping other people's secrets, but when it comes to my own...the cat is ALWAYS out of the bag. I have a crush on someone? Everyone knows. I'm not doing well in a class? Even information that shouldn't really be shared with people is common knowledge! It's frustrating because I plan on keeping things to myself, but somehow they end up shared.
The example I can think of most (besides the blog thing) is my cruisefling. (Ha, more sharing. Oh well.) I went on a cruise back in December to celebrate my grandparents 60th anniversary (seriously amazing) and my Grandmother's 80th birthday. I love the piano and anyone who can play it. (I've mentioned this.) I went to the piano bar on the first night of the cruise, and the piano player and I hit it off, one thing led to another and voila! A cruisefling was born. When I got back from the trip I decided that I wanted to keep it to myself, not tell anyone. It was my business, why should I share it? That didn't last for long. I think two days after I had gotten back more than half of my friends knew. And when I share a "secret," I kind of become obsessive about it. So I was talking about it a lot. Again, I think I've shared this.
Anyway, I suck at keeping my own secrets.
Here's something that shouldn't be kept a secret though: a blog about the new subway scrabble contest. Check it. Seriously.
3 comments:
I'm definitely the same way. I can't keep my own secrets, and then once I share them, I obsess over them.
My excuse is that I have so many thoughts in my head that something has to be sacrificed, and I'm too loyal to share other people's secrets, so I end up sharing my own. :o)
Ugh, I can't keep my own secrets either. AT ALL!
Thanks for checking out my blog and for all the kind words! I had no clue, but i'm definitely subscribing to yours now. :)
I'm convinced that all bloggers (no matter how anon we try to be) have a bit of narcissism in us. Why else would we display our writing for the world to see?
So it's understandable that it leaks out. I started out completely anonymous, but now I have a handful of friends who have either stumbled upon it... or I told them while drunk.
It happens. It's a part of blogging.
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