The Internet Confessional
Jun. 27th, 2008 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradept“Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world.”
I suspect this statement is true. Many of us carry around things inside of us that are traumatic, either to ourselves or to others. Finding someone to confide those traumas and fears in is a large part of our searches for companionship, for love, and for intimate partners. Clergy, especially those of religions where sin is an important thing, are often tasked with the hearing of secrets, and then with the further task of carrying those secrets with them for the rest of their lives. In the places specially designed for the release of secrets, the walls hold the confessions of all types of people. The Internet now makes it possible for one place of secrets to hold the confessions of a multitude worldwide, like PostSecret does.
Not that we ever think the Internet will run out of places for people to post secrets or confessions, but we thought that having a few more spots wouldn’t hurt any. So, for those who wish to unload their hearts or minds, or see what they can craft to shock or elicit sympathy from others, the following is offered:
Post anything that you want here, and post it anonymously. A story, a secret, a confession, a fear, a love, what you think of me, your parents, boyfriend, anything. Just make it honest. Make sure to post anonymously and honestly. Post as many times as you’d like. If you wish, then, put this in your LJ to see what others have to say.
Remember to post anonymously, please. The confessional is ruined if the priest or keeper starts blabbing who it was to others.
I suspect this statement is true. Many of us carry around things inside of us that are traumatic, either to ourselves or to others. Finding someone to confide those traumas and fears in is a large part of our searches for companionship, for love, and for intimate partners. Clergy, especially those of religions where sin is an important thing, are often tasked with the hearing of secrets, and then with the further task of carrying those secrets with them for the rest of their lives. In the places specially designed for the release of secrets, the walls hold the confessions of all types of people. The Internet now makes it possible for one place of secrets to hold the confessions of a multitude worldwide, like PostSecret does.
Not that we ever think the Internet will run out of places for people to post secrets or confessions, but we thought that having a few more spots wouldn’t hurt any. So, for those who wish to unload their hearts or minds, or see what they can craft to shock or elicit sympathy from others, the following is offered:
Post anything that you want here, and post it anonymously. A story, a secret, a confession, a fear, a love, what you think of me, your parents, boyfriend, anything. Just make it honest. Make sure to post anonymously and honestly. Post as many times as you’d like. If you wish, then, put this in your LJ to see what others have to say.
Remember to post anonymously, please. The confessional is ruined if the priest or keeper starts blabbing who it was to others.
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Date: 2008-07-02 12:05 am (UTC)My secret? Hmm... I never had a girlfriend. To date, I never felt myself adequate for such an undertaking. Either I was too poor, too shy, too old, too immature, too undeserving. I didn't realize how wrong I was.
I'm not really insecure. It's just that I don't want to be an asshole. I never wanted to waste someone else's time with someone like me. I've been really poor through most of my life. I'm faring a bit better now, at the cost of some annoying debt, but then time has passed and I'm a bit old now. Perhaps too old for the kind of woman I like. No, I don't mean underage girls. That would be evil.
They say I'm perhaps too nice, and maybe it's true. Meanwhile, girls fall for that kind of man who is attractive and manly and stuff but turns out to be an asshole who treats them badly. Time after time, I see in the news the picture of a very beautiful lady who has been mistreated or even murdered by her boyfriend or husband, and it enrages me.
Nowadays, I feel like I missed many opportunities, to learn things like how to properly approach a lady and such. Long ago I tried, once, and I even got scheduled for a date, but I somehow missed it (hence, and for other reasons, the thousand days process of getting over her).
I've learned a lot of stuff since then, including that bit of knowledge that refuted my earlier theories about how it should be and stuff. I feel it's time to get out from this egg and try again. Who knows...