Page 2 - Boca ViewPointe - July '19

Page 2, Viewpointe July 2019

Secrets

By Judith Levy I call it leakage. That’s telling something to someone promised she wouldn’t say anything, he swore he would
in confidence that is better left unsaid, but out it leaks. You never say a word.” Then the self recrimination begins. Why
When I was a young know even as you are sharing this information that you’re was I such a fool? So, don’t indulge yourself in this suicidal
girl, during World War Two, not doing the right thing, but somehow you feel compelled sharing. Keep your own council. You have two ears and one
posters were everywhere to go on. It’s almost like the moth and the flame. mouth. So, talk less and listen more.
and everyone would say, My advice is, tell it to your rabbi, your priest or your Have you, dear reader, ever told someone something
“A slip of the lip can sink minister. Talk to a therapist. Do anything but confide to about yourself, your husband, your children, you were sorry
a ship.” Learning to keep a friend information that you could not handle were it to you had revealed? Have you been disappointed that a good
one’s mouth shut was vital to become public. friend didn’t keep your confidence? I’ll bet it caused you a
the war effort and probably Count on the fact that wives tell husbands and husbands lot of pain. Did you learn a lesson or is a secret something
something that sorely needs tell wives. If your friend doesn’t do this then you’re the lucky you really can’t keep to yourself? If you can’t keep a secret,
to be remembered. one. But odds are two people on a pillow share information. expect to pay the price.
A secret is something only one person knows. As soon This is not to say there aren’t any good friends who keep
as you take your busom buddy into your confidence, there confidences, no matter what. But you’ll never know till the Judith Levy is the New York Times best-selling author of
is a distinct feeling of relief for having unburdened yourself. cat’s out of the bag. Then it’s too late, and you have no one GRANDMOTHER REMEMBERS which has sold over four
But, in a very short time you feel threatened by the fact that to blame but yourself. That’s what hurts the most. million copies and the mega best seller GRANDFATHER
someone knows something about you that could possibly sink Over and over in your head you keep thinking, “She REMEMBERS, published by HarperCollins. 
your ship. You’re never sorry about what you don’t say, but
you can cry a bucket for revealing information about yourself
or your situation that could undo you.
For just as you originally felt better for unburdening
yourself, the person you told it to may need the same relief
and there goes your story. Of course, you’ll insist the person
you tell it to must keep your secret, and they agree, but
suddenly, unbelievably, everyone knows something that no
one should have known in the first place. And who told them?
You!

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