Can You Keep A Secret ??

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Can you keep a secret?

Some people can keep secrets but only certain types and kinds of secrets.
They can keep secrets such as personal secrets or family secrets but can't keep their mouth shut about the neighbor’s new side boo, or the fact that Carl from down the street suddenly “found” a brand-new lawnmower nobody remembers him buying, or how Sharon’s “secret family heirloom hand-me-down recipe” tastes suspiciously like the one on the back of the soup can.

Asking because I just discovered I’d make a terrible spy.
Tried to hide a snack from myself and found it 30 seconds later.
Temptation: 1. Me: 0.
 

No problem, I’ve never been much of a gossip.

My mother and her circle of friends called it sharing information. 😉🤭😂

I’ve always felt that people who were quick to betray other people’s confidences wouldn’t hesitate to betray mine.

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Okay, so let me add an different flavor.

For me, it depends on the secret. If a secret threatened people, then I'd struggle to keep it. In fact, would likely strategize how to reveal it so save lives. I was once in a situation where I knew an entire team of employees were about to be replaced, and that was horrific. I say horrific, but I realize that from a business perspective it was advantageous to know this offer, but from a personal perspective, it was going to cause hardship in many families.

Empathy can be a burden. Yet it's also what makes us human. Or at least, good humans.
 
When I worked for the Sheriff's Dept. all official correspondence(memos, email, face to face directives) were deemed confidential. Between employees on a personal level,matters were "what plays in Vegas stays in Vegas" confidential, especially if expressly requested. Naturally, there were gossips and blabber-mouths, but they were well known. If a gossip/blabber-mouth would tell you something about someone else, you could bet that they would talk behind your back as well.
"Snitches get stitches", a saying amongst inmates, applies to staff as well.
 
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Well yes, there's that too.
When in the military a complete and thorough background investigation of me was conducted before issuance of a classification that precludes my public discussion of entire military and career endeavors. To do so would expose me to possible uniform code of military justice (UCMJ) adjudication that could result in reduction of rank and loss of pension. Only on a need to know.
 
I was always one who would honor a friend's request to keep something secret. And after becoming a Disease Intervention Specialist for the state's STD unit, confidentiality became even more ingrained. I had to interview people and find out the most intimate details about their sex lives for the purpose of eliciting contacts and determining how best to test and treat everyone involved. I found out a lot of "dirty little secrets" about a lot of people....some I knew from town, some were relatives and some were famous.

We couldn't even tell the wives, husbands and S.O.s of people infected that they were who named them. HIPA laws and all. One day my sweet cousin came to me and asked in her sweetest voice if a friend (probably boyfriend) had been to clinic. I told her I wasn't allowed to give her any information about who attends clinic.
 
I think it was Francis Bacon who said... only three people can keep a secret- if 2 of them are dead.
As for my self- yes and no it depends on the circumstance. What irritates me, is the person who asks you to keep a secret,but then later someone else comes and tells you that persons secret! Then even more people know the Secret.
 
While in the military, I carried a clearance along with my job. I did receive special documents with information that I could not share. If any of that information was released or shared, I could have faced a special court martial that included severe penalties if found guilty. I guarded it with my life.
 
“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

―Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A Life For A Life
 
Naturally said:
Can you keep a secret?

Some people can keep secrets but only certain types and kinds of secrets.
They can keep secrets such as personal secrets or family secrets but can't keep their mouth shut about the neighbor’s new side boo, or the fact that Carl from down the street suddenly “found” a brand-new lawnmower nobody remembers him buying, or how Sharon’s “secret family heirloom hand-me-down recipe” tastes suspiciously like the one on the back of the soup can.

Asking because I just discovered I’d make a terrible spy.
Tried to hide a snack from myself and found it 30 seconds later.
Temptation: 1. Me: 0.
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Ahem, THIS Sharon doesn't read or use the recipes on cans :ROFLMAO:
 

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