Secrets 

I didn’t realize how many heart breaking things people actually keep inside themselves til today…

In health, we’re learning about self esteem and what causes it. My teacher thought it was a good idea to watch All American Reject’s music video “Dirty Little Secret.” She even told us the real story behind the video, which was a man actually went around all over his neighborhood dropping these cards. On the card it said his address and told the person reading it to write their secret on the back of it and mail it back. He was completely harmless. He’d drop it in restaurants, parks, streets, just about anywhere and everywhere. After the first week, he didn’t get any, not one. A couple days later, they started piling up. One turned into ten then hundreds and thousands. Blahblahblah, anyways, my teacher did the same idea for us last week. She wrote on half sheets of paper to write a secret of your own on the back of the card and to drop it off in the box located in room 204 or the IMC. She hung up all the secrets today. I wish I would have submitted one, some of them were so cute. Many of them were depressing. I actually remembered some of them too.

“I wish I was the mailman, so I could stop by this guy’s house.” 

“I cry myself to sleep every night because I know I’m fat. :(“

“I got raped a couple years ago, but nobody knows. Not even my family. I’m scared to go anywhere alone.”

“I secretly stole this pen.”

“One of my family members of the same gender raped me.”

“I had sex with an 18 year old. :(“

“I really like my best friend.”

“I always imagine the perfect person.”

“I’m jealous of my best friend.”

“I’ve never had my first kiss.”

“I have a really bad relationship with my dad, and I hate living everyday because of it.”

“I got positive on a chlamydia test and my parents don’t care. I told them I even got tested, but they hate me.”

“I’ve never had a boyfriend, and it sucks because it makes me feel so ugly.”

“I hate smokers, but I turned into one. :/”

But yeah.. Moral of this activity was to not judge a person, unless you know what they’re going through. Know the appropriate time when to share your opinions,

February 14, 2012 △ 17 notes
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