When is Telling Somebody Better than Keeping a Secret

Millions of promises are made in a lifetime. Your parents promise you that the world will get better once you get to know the environment around you. You are promised if you eat half the vegetables on your plate the monsters will not seek you out and much to the contrary you may actually grow. Teachers tell you if a special dance is performed it will snow overnight. If you try your very best you can be anything you want!! But probably the most important promise to ever be made are the pinky promises and blood oaths you make with your bestest friends. The two of you have known each other for so it is almost like you are sisters now, everything is shared between you when it becomes necessary; notes, gossip, clothes, sex stories… You get the picture.

               Every so often you’ll get a top-secret peek into their life and it isn’t something you can handle keeping to yourself, nor is it something you should. We as people are bound to let something slip in our behavior or in the way we enunciate and exaggerate certain words. Every action is a context clue pertaining to something rambling through your mind.

               When somebody tells you they were raped; when somebody tells you they want to commit suicide; if you are told that they are running away, are going to commit a crime…. You should not feel obligated to keep these things to yourself. You are only one person and it can harm you as much as it could hurt them because you will have to live on with the guilt that you could have done something to stop them from ruining their life. Try and persuade them to tell somebody else and seek up help; but you also should know that if the day comes when you really cannot do anything to help your friend; do what you think is superlative, even if it means you may lose your friend for a while. Everyone is bound to come to terms with their actions and those of people whom help them after they have had time to re-experiencing life.