Secrets

Have you ever asked yourself, "How can I trust somebody, when I myself, can't be trusted?" Or did you just think that people will just shut their mouths and never speak your secrets, when you share theirs with others? If you're the kinda person who don't speak, then, there's no problem with you, but I'm talking about the people who do speak. And by speak, I mean, gossip, talking about other people's lives to your best friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, friends, family, etc.

But seriously, do you think people will keep the secrets you tell them, if you tell other people their secrets? Because I don't think so. It's a cycle. If people tell you secrets, and you tell other people their secrets, and you tell people your secrets, they'd tell other people your secrets. It's like the water cycle. The evaporation begins when there's water under the sun (your friends telling you their secrets), which follows by evapotranspiration (you telling your friends your secrets), condensation steps in after that(you telling others your friends' secrets) and it goes back to constantly flowing stream (your friend tells others your secrets). Get it?

So, next time, if you want people to keep your secrets, don't tell others their secrets.

But honestly, in this world, there's only a little percent of people who won't speak of others. People can't be trusted. No matter how much they convince you to trust them, they'll come to a point someday that they'll spit everything out. Seriously! Not even your best friend in the whole world. Even if she/he knows you better than you know yourself, she/he can never keep your secret for so long. If they don't spill your secrets to somebody, they'll spill it in their own way, like writing, for me.

So the safest way I can advice you on how to trust people is... Don't. Don't trust people. For Muslims, you can only trust Allah with your life, but people? No, you can't. You just can't. It's a fact, in life. But I'm not saying you can't tell your best friends secrets, or should stop doing so, because I myself, will never stop telling my best friends my secrets. Just, be careful.

If you tell your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees ~ Kahlil Gibran

Inspired by,
Dina Dzafira.