Post Secret

I went to the Post Secret event hosted by OUAB at Hitchcock the other day. The author of the books and idea, Frank Warren, came to talk to us about his original inspiration for the idea, and what has become of it in the last 5 years that it has existed.

It originally started out as a small project that he was going to do. Only 400 cards. He walked around the city and passed them out to strangers. It was an art exhibit. Then a website. Then a music video for "Dirty Little Secret." Then books. Today, he has received over 400,000 confessionals.

He says people send in their postcards for a sense of relief, for a way to get something off their shoulders, for an outlet in which they can admit something that they're too afraid to tell other people. PostSecret has become something of a safe haven for people across the country. After receiving emails about how seeing their secret, or the secrets of others that share their secret they were too afraid to send in, changed their lives, Frank realized this project was so much more than a cooperative art exhibit. It was a release. It saved some from suicide, made others realize they weren't alone, helped people through hard times.

Just one little idea, and it has impacted the country in such a great way.

My roommate bought the newest book. I really enjoyed this secret in particular. So I illegally scanned it onto my computer and am posting it for you now.

The writing reads:

"I found this inside a magazine on an airplane. As soon as I arrived home, I took the ring I've had in my pocket for two years out and proposed to my girlfriend in the middle of the airport.
SHE SAID YES."

The slip of paper reads:

"This is your moment.
The right time is NOW!"

And it's so true.
Take action now, because it's now or never. No second chances. No regret.

*

I leave you with a quote. Because I love quotes. And I read them whenever I am thinking about, well, pretty much anything. It's nice to know you aren't alone in your thoughts. My own little haven that encompasses all of histories greatest thinkers, instead of 400,000+ postcards.

“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”
- Andre Malraux