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Keep Your Secret to Yourself

It was once said that “If you can not keep your secret to yourself, do not expect others to keep it for you”.

Wise words for those seeking wisdom, for Man’s secrets are those things he/she does not like others to know, for whatever reason.  However, being a social animal, who likes to be with people and communicating with them, he might feel the need to share his secrete with someone considered trustworthy.  When we share a secrete of ours with someone, there is always the assertion that no one else should know this secret, for not one else have been told about it.

It is also reasonable to assume that this secrete will be less important to that person than to the initial keeper of the secret, and Therefore, he is more likely to let this secret known to others than the person who’s secret it is, who was in fact the first person to release this secret. 

Consequently, unless a person has to share a particular secret with others, he should share it only with the least number of people he has to share it with.  By telling others who did not need to know, is in reality a divulgence of the secret, and one should not be surprised or angry if others do what he did of divulging his secret.

Dr Ahmed Saafan