A secret stops being one the moment it’s shared. Choose who gets the key carefully.
CREATIVITY
WHAT THIS MEANS
A secret only exists while it has one holder. The moment it is passed on it is no longer secret, it is simply travelling slowly, and everyone it reaches believes they are the last stop. That is worth knowing before you tell somebody, and worth taking seriously when somebody tells you, because the decision of what happens next is now yours and not theirs.
Something given to you in confidence can stop with you this week. If you are the one needing to tell someone, choose one person on purpose rather than whoever is nearest.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Who has earned the right to hear your private things?
MORE IN PARADOX, METAPHOR & FOOD FOR THOUGHT
- Every river looks small at its source. Nobody stands at a trickle and imagines a city on its banks.
- In a total eclipse, the small moon blocks the giant sun because of where it stands. Position can beat size.
- Pressing the elevator button ten times doesn’t bring it faster. Some waiting can’t be hurried, only endured gracefully.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.