Secrets

Recent news casts blabbing about people and how we all have secrets. And, the most important fact about why we have these secrets. Some people have little secrets, like she has a small chest full of costume jewelry she likes to dress up on Sundays and play dance time. He has the stash of baseball cards and a wooden bat. So he can pretend while he is drinking a beer, he is in the big leagues.

He fantasizes about getting women and fast cars as he sits on the carpet, racing tiny cars over a rubber track. He is forty maybe older. And then there are those who are closeted smokers, they smoke secretly the little air pipes and work hard to hide the smells. The secret chewer. Secret baby doll collector. Secretly dressing up like a woman, hiding what he really feels inside himself, his feminine side. She secretly picks her buggers and eats them. From the gross to the extreme we all have them. Secrets.


But why? Do human beings want to have secrets? Is this a fad? Is it something we carry from our caveman days of living in the dark reaches of the earth? Perhaps we enjoy stashing things and coming back to them later. Maybe secrets are our way of saying we have power. Scientists are studying us. And they want to know what you stash and why. Check it out maybe your local University has a study program and maybe they might offer a little cash or even one of your very own secrets.