A secret that is not mine.

[shzwah]

I think I know something, and it feels wierd to have to keep it in. It's like I stumbled on to someone else's secret by accident...found something forbidden. Something precious, and sad. It's my secret now, but I want so badly to just say it. I think it's meant to be spoken. It has tried to come out in many forms. Some seen, some not. It's a

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[erelsi183]

Wow, hello Joy on LiveJournal. This is new.

Can you tell the person whose secret it is that you think you've discovered? Maybe they need someone else to tell them it should be said. I don't really know the situation but maybe that would help both people involved?

[shzwah]

I suppose I could...but it's a wierd situation. I don't know them all that well, and I think I only know the secret because of a multitude of little things that I've seen and been a part of, not because it was divulged to me. And I think the person wants to say it, because they keep hinting...but they might feel wierd if I come out and tell them I know. I think they really want someone else to know, if that makes sense. Not me.

[bkakabk]

Hmm, I think I know what you're talking about. And somehow I don't think the "hinting" is supposed to be completely cryptic - I don't think they really want it hidden. I also don't think they read livejournal...Is the 5th letter of the name an 'h'?

[bkakabk]

Or if I don't know what you're talking about, then I'm in the same situation.

[wanderingphd]

How's that eavesdropping thing working for ya? :)

[shzwah]

hush. You don't want me to start speaking cryptically about the secrets concerning you that I've discovered...;)

[tacsharp]

Oh, Joy. I have been there. Actually I am there right now. It must be the planets aligning in some strange configuration. ;-) Follow your heart. If you aren't the right person to reveal it, don't. But if it's sad secret and there's fallout after, because you were aware ahead you'll be a better support to the person that needs it. That's what I've found to be true in the past. Just don't try to "fix" it.

If it's not "sad," you'll get to claim one-upmanship with the gossips when they come running. "Oh, yeah. I knew quite a while ago." A certain PhD candidate and I had one of those arguments a while back. I believe I won. ;-)

{PS: I love that word - "exponentially" - but I just can't say it for anything! >:-( }

[shzwah]

hehe. It does seem sometimes that things line up in ways that shouldn't be possible. Or maybe it's better phrased this way: It's possible, but not probable.

That's great advice...be there to support after the fallout, if there is one. I don't know if I'll be someone that person will come to, but I suppose I would be willing. :)

And one-upmanship is something I don't get to have often, (except with our PhD candidate...by the way, I jokingly told him you'd emailed me, and he was like "Wait-how do you know her?" and I said you and I were BFF and he was like "Oh no..." HA!) so I will DEFINATELY keep that in the back of my mind for future reference.

[tacsharp]

(except with our PhD candidate...by the way, I jokingly told him you'd emailed me, and he was like "Wait-how do you know her?" and I said you and I were BFF and he was like "Oh no..." HA!)

LOL! I Love It!!! He can be so clueless. And that's because he's never gone to my journal so he wouldn't think you would have!!

[shzwah]

ach! why would he not go to your journal? It's amazing (the little written in it, at least). :)

PhD my candidate ass! (ask Unmesh about that one...hehe) OR...just say it to him randomly, see what he does. :)