Secret 2

Have you ever kept a secret? There are so many people living on Earth that the concept of someone who has never kept something to himself or has told a lie is downright ludicrous; social interaction demands, at times, that we withhold information for the same of preserving the status quo. Lies are no different, since all they are is secrets in disguise. The phrase "skeletons in the closet" has become such an inherent part of our lexicon that every time you meet someone new you automatically suppose that he or she has something to hide. Everyone has a story to tell, and it's up to them what parts of the tale they want to tell. Are said parts meant to be withheld forever, though? If only it was so easy.
Keeping a secret exactly that is frustratingly hard for a variety of reasons. Every person is a world of their own with their own set of values and opinions that, even if there are some that never change, there are at least twice as many instances that change throughout the course of one's lifetime as often as the weather itself. It's unpredictable, and even though secrets never change, the people that keep them do. No secret ever stays that way for long. No matter what scenario you put it in, there will always be a loophole where the truth will rear its head out; specially in the age we're living in now, where people can access any type of information they could possibly want with a click or the push of a button. The current generation is one of a "now" mentality: everything is so readily available in the way of information, technology and resources that there is no room for secrets anymore, and this statement can be applied all across the board from the most insignificant secrets to global scale, government-cripling ones.
But since we are not governments and to divulge that calliber of secrets could very well mean the demise of civilization as we know it, we can do something to save ourselves the embarrassment when it comes to our own secrets or things we know about others; withholding information, no matter how insignificant it may seem to be at first, it is always bad. Always bad. Let's put it in perspective: Let's say you bought a lotto ticket out on a whim. You don't buy lotto tickets often but that particular day you felt lucky so you decided to give it a try; you show it to your girlfriend and both of you don't think much of it so you stuff the ticket in the night table and forget about it since the draw isn't happening for at least a couple of days. The day of the lotto drawing comes around and your girl's at home for lunch and she happens to catch the lotto drawing, as it turns out, your number's the winner. You just won yourself 7 million dollars! You'd be so excited if you actually knew you had won, but your girlfriend decides to keep the information to herself; she takes the ticket from the night table, cashes it, and immediately quits work and starts spending it while you keep at it in your desk job like an idiot. Of course, eventually you notice how she left town "because of work" and never see her again, realizing a day later reading the newspaper that your number was the winner and that your girlfriend elloped with your money. How would this have been avoided? By keeping it a secret, of course; even still, your girlfriend would've found out eventually anyway whether you left her or stayed with her to enjoy your newfound fortune, and it would cause problems. Do you see where I'm getting at? Secrets are always meant to be found out eventually, and they only cause a whole lot of unnecesary tribulations. The thing with secrets boils down to this: is it really worth keeping it a secret?
Secrets will always be a part of our social interaction; we can't escape it, no matter what circles we troll ourselves into. You can be best friends with all members of your troop but as you find out with time, everyone has "dirty laundry" that no one else needs to know about. Everyone's perfect because of their imperfections, and because of said imperfections there will always be friction between someone and someone else's traits. Secrets will forever be a part of civilizations, but to think that secrets are like ciamonds in the sense that they last forever then you are sadly mistaken, since there will always come a day where the truth will come out. It's as sure a thing as death and taxes.