Post Secret Shouldn’t Be a Secret
So, if you’re not aware, there’s a very popular website called Post Secret. It’s one of the most successful blogs out there, without paid advertising apparently, and it’s premise is that people send in post cards in with an image and a secret – get it? Post Secret. Later, the blog’s author puts the best secrets into a book – which people buy and he goes on tours to promote. Anyways.
here’s the usual cheating and fantasizing and stealing – the seven deadly sins, basically. There’s secrets of retaliation and guilt and forgiveness. Most of the time it’s a pretty interesting anthropological study. A couple of weeks ago, the image at the left was one of the featured secrets.
Now, I’ve written in the past of my concern over my eating disorder, whether teetering in recovery or not, having such an affect on my daughter as to sway her towards the abyss. I mean, when you see someone 24 hours a day who is obviously plagued, it could consequently equal her thinking it’s normal or even acceptable. This is the last thing I want, obviously.
But my problem with this postcard is that it was sent into a secret website, meaning that the author of the postcard either doesn’t want people to know about her eating disorder (in which case, how likely it is that it will be passed onto her daughter) or she’s consumed with shame that she doesn’t want her daughter to develop an eating disorder.
Which do you think it is and how would this hit you?
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:29 am
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August 26th, 2009 at 10:59 am
I keep hitting the backspace button instead of the enter button when i try to comment. Im so stupid today! LOL