Dark Secrets

I am happily not part of the dating world, but I can imagine that, on a first date, one question that needs to be asked and answered is this: What is one of your dark secrets?

OK, maybe not on a first date. Most likely, it will be the last date.

Oh – you don’t have any dark secrets? That suggests that you are keeping them secret from yourself.

No, I am not going to reveal my dark secrets here. Did you really think I would?

Once revealed, they are no longer secrets, and so they lose much of their power.

Our dark secrets are a mark of our precious individuality, our self – outposts in the soup of our relationships at work, at home and at play. As such, we need them.

What does a dark secret sound like?

·      I pick my nose.

·      I had an abortion – two of them.

·      I watch porn.

·      I had an affair.

·      I am having an affair.

·      I wish I were dead.

·      I ate the last cookies.

·      I see more than you think I do.

·      I was involved in a hit-and-run.

·      I don’t know who I am.

·      I have a beast inside me.

·      My heart is made of brain tissue.

·      I am not here.

You get the idea. What are your dark secrets?