“I have come to believe that by and large the human family all has the same secrets, which are both very telling and very important to tell. They are telling in the sense that they tell what is perhaps the central paradox of our condition—that what we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else. It is important to tell at least from time to time the secret of who we truly and fully are — otherwise we run the risk of losing track of who we are.”
-Frederick Buechner in Telling Secrets
I’m trying to get back into the habit of telling my secrets here from time to time. Funny how my secrets can often be told through someone else’s words.
“Just for a while, stop looking behind you. This is going to be really difficult but you have to try with everything you have got, to stop looking behind you. And there will come a day, you beautiful, brave soul, when you will tell someone the truth about you, your whole tale, and not a half truth that you have had to give the world. You know the one. The story you made up for the world to hear because it was too weak to handle what had really happened to you. But one day, you will tell your truth and it will no longer bring tears to your eyes for your recovery has begun. Instead, you will tell it with the kind of strength that will bring tears to other people’s eyes. So please, stop looking behind you, my darling. You aren’t going in that direction, you are going the opposite way.”
– Nikita Gill
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