Being trusted with a secret is a job, and the whole job description is: say nothing to anybody.

GRATITUDE

WHAT THIS MEANS

A secret handed to you is not information, it is responsibility. There is no version of keeping it that includes one exception, one best friend, one person who would never tell. Every retelling adds a door, and doors do not stay shut. The person who trusted you was measuring whether you were safe.

If something is sitting heavy in you this week, notice the pull to pass it on and let the pull go by. If you genuinely cannot hold it, go back to the person who told you rather than around them. Holding it costs you nothing but a little discomfort.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which secret of someone else’s are you carrying carefully?

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