How many of us go through life hiding things from others or pretending that things are different to what they really are?... Do we do this to protect ourselves? And if it's to protect ourselves, is it for a realistic reason or is it simply because we... fear judgement or exposure (in which case it becomes a protection mechanism anyway...)
Does it matter if the person next to me knows how much I weigh or how old I am?
Sure, I probably don't want to share with everyone how much money I earn... but unless I had signed a privacy contract, would it matter if it slipped??? Really?...
I have no doubt that many of you reading this now have some very strong opinions on the matter of what should stay private and what is okay to be public, but the reason I'm writing this is definitely NOT to have a debate on the pros and cons of privacy, or to argue what should be private or not, but simply to get us thinking about our own stuff...
What if there was a big part of ourselves that we knew intimately, and that made us who we really are, but that we tried to keep hidden from the world? Why would we do that? What would be the point?... Would you be prepared to open yourself up and share what was true about you?
Surely there would have to be a point in time that we came clean with the world and released all that is us...
But what do you think? And would you be brave enough to share?.....
Sure, I probably don't want to share with everyone how much money I earn... but unless I had signed a privacy contract, would it matter if it slipped??? Really?...
I have no doubt that many of you reading this now have some very strong opinions on the matter of what should stay private and what is okay to be public, but the reason I'm writing this is definitely NOT to have a debate on the pros and cons of privacy, or to argue what should be private or not, but simply to get us thinking about our own stuff...
What if there was a big part of ourselves that we knew intimately, and that made us who we really are, but that we tried to keep hidden from the world? Why would we do that? What would be the point?... Would you be prepared to open yourself up and share what was true about you?
Surely there would have to be a point in time that we came clean with the world and released all that is us...
But what do you think? And would you be brave enough to share?.....
