Keeping Secrets: An Important Part Of Friendship

I did not like keeping secrets. I felt guilty. This was a secret I kept. This secret could not be told.

Friends are an important part of everyone's life. The friends you choose can sometimes alter your life. Not all friends are true friends and not all friends are good ones. A true friend should tell you the truth no matter what. Most people don't want to be friends will someone who will lie to them.

Close friends often have a major impact on the choices that people make. A close

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. One person who takes this quote to an entirely new level is Montresor from “The Cask of Amontillado”. In this short story by Edgar Allan Poe, Montresor has had enough of his boorish friend Fortunato and vows for revenge. Before Montresor's retaliation, he approaches the sickly Fortunato and offers him some of the rare Amontillado which he has locked away in the cellar of his home. While on their way to retrieve the alcohol, Montresor tells Fortunato to drink for his heavy cough, intoxicating him more with each sip. Once they arrive at the cellar, Montresor tricks Fortunato to his death by walling him up brick by brick. Montresor however wouldn’t have been able to go

I found this quote to be a sad truth. It is disappointing to know that in this small town wherein everyone was on a friendly basis with one another, they would all turn their backs on neighbors they’ve known forever, due to the dangers of their own imagination. Once someone has my trust, I

Secret is defined as something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others. If that is true, why do we tell others our secrets? No one's secrets are truly theirs, at some point anxiety will build up, information accidentally comes out, or you may just tell someone. Your confidentialities are not always yours, at a young age kids tell their parents everything. As those kids grow up, and become teens they start to develop barriers between their parents. Not telling them whatever is going on, at school or at practice can only last so long. This is hardly the case, because everyone has told their friend or parent something that was meant to be classified. For example, if one player on the basketball team knows a secret about another player, the whole team knows. That is due to the fact that we are a family and don’t care what we think of each other, because we are one. Trustworthiness is hard to prove, confidence is needed to tell someone a secret. If the friend is not trustworthy then that secret could be floating around school completely changed from its original stature. A secret is only a true secret if it is kept with only yourself. Just as honesty is evident in life so it is in literature. In William Shakespeare’s famous love story, “ Romeo and Juliet” and in life, withholding secrets is the

Frances Ward Weller is endeavoring to show brotherhood, betrayal, and the passing of friendship in his quote “A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself”. Weller’s quote is saying how even though you may see or feel a change within yourself it’s always good to have a close peer that has an introspective view on your flaws and could help you for the greater good. Some people it is common that they’re obscure of their flaws and may not have a peer who is able to make a difference before it turns into something worse. In the novel That Was Then, This Is Now, the author S.E Hinton is trying to accentuate how over elapse time friendships can start to change and have an amiable outcome or can become formidable. Also sometimes a

In conclusion, I strongly believe that telling the truth is way more important than having that “good” reputation. You may not have a lot of friends after telling the truth, but at least you’ll have the real ones, and that’s so much important to me than looking

Most secrets start with self preservation. Most are started out of telling ourselves we are being kind to the other party or parties involved, but in reality we are avoiding repercussion of our own thoughts or actions. Keeping secrets can cause guilt, anger, sorrow etc. These emotions can and normally will manifest in an assortment of physical ailments. Depression, headaches, ulcers etc or over time can be the root of many major health crisis such as cancer, heart attacks etc. Keeping a secret overtime will change your core values of life and how you react to others and life choices. Sometimes you will make choices on the fact that you are trying not to divulge your secrets and this can alter your life and

Others may say, secrets must be kept because they can hurt people. In an article by Irene Van, says that you can keep secrets about family and friends. Irene Van says, “ Gossip about family or friends unless this is about something that worries you, in / which case you should tell a adult you trust” (Van.II). This proves that, Irene Van believes that secrets about family and friends should be kept because it can really hurt your friends feelings. Second, this could be true because if I tell my friend one of my secrets, I trust this person. If he or she is going to go and tell my secret to someone, I am not going to tell he/she any secrets. However, on the other hand, in the same article Irene Van says that any kind of touch should not be kept as a secret. Irene Van says, “ Secrets that are not safe to keep:/ Any kind of touch” (Van.II). First, I would tell my parents if this happens to me because if I tell this secret to my friends, and they spread it, it would hurt me. Second, this can lead to more problems if I kept this as a secret from my parents because, the same thing will continue if I don’t take

Lennie and George, the inseparable pair, are always travelling together. Some people living in 1930’s California find this fact a little bit odd, but to George and Lennie, it is second nature. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the traditional views of friendship are challenged when the reader meets the main characters, one of whom is suffering from a disability that prohibits him from being able to learn and comprehend basic concepts such as remembering facts or following directions. The other friend, George Milton, grows increasingly frustrated with having to deal with the disability, and continually complains about it; regardless of that, Lennie Small and his lifelong friend George

Secrets. Lies. Gossip. Truth. Things that we all hear throughout our lives, but when do these things actually start to matter? When does that insignificant rumor affect your life? More importantly, when does it affect others'? Only when a life is in danger, do we realize how much power a single word can have. And how that single word could save or destroy someone. Although some teenagers of “To Tell or Not to Tell?” by Mary Kate Frank, believe you shouldn’t disclose suspicious, life-threatening activity or behavior because you could lose your friends and/or be labeled as a snitch, closer examination shows that by telling you could save lives and better protect those around you.

Two people of different ages and genders can form solid friendship, which becomes their spiritual dependence and compensates their lacking of emotional care. Also, the end of friendship further demonstrates the importance of it. This paper will focus on Okyō and Kichizō’s friendship in “Separate Ways,” by Higuchi Ichiyo, and Park So-nyo and Lee Eun-gyu’s friendship in Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin, to analyze the form and end of their friendships.

One time last year one of my friends told me a secret, and didn't want me to spill to anyone. And another on of my friends later asked me about it and i told them. My first friend got really upset and it hurt her. In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry there was a young boy named Jonas who, when turned 12, was chosen to be the new giver. He had to hold all the information from the past lifestyles, and wasn't able to tell anyone. If Jonas tells anyone about the past life he can be punished, also it may change the whole area to a different lifestyle, which could end very bad. All together I can say that sometimes telling the truth is not the right choice.

They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”