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For those who don't know, PostSecret.com is a website, started by a man named Frank, where people can mail in secrets they've never told anyone. The site is updated every Sunday with new secrets, and they are often incredibly touching and humbling. This video made me cry.
http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1053
(free to listen, absolutely fascinating phone confessions)
Transcripts of some of the apology/confessions are here:
http://www.apologyproject.com/samplecalls.htm
I remember listening to the show when I was much younger, one particular confession is particularly powerful and disturbing. There is supposedly a documentary being made by Thom Powers of Sugar Pictures.
The PostSecrets don't show personally identifiable information, and the website does say explicitly that if you mail one in, you grant him the right to republish it. Which I think is probably a good thing, both for the people sharing their secret, and for the rest of us who get to read them and gain a deeper sense of our own humanity.
Overall, I'm impressed with the sensitivity that Frank has used to handle the position that he has been thrown into by surprise.
No, really though, in honesty - who the hell has the rocks to work for the 1-800-suicide hotline?
My guess is that every postcard in the book was OKed by the person who sent it.
I read a post on YT from one of the people who sent him a card (prison tv guy) thanking him for what he has done.
Same type of people who work as paramedics in ugly areas, or in rehab clinics, or whatever else. There are more special people out there than we realize who live with ugly things year after year somehow.
The two comments in the video that struck me the most was the line "I let him walk in darkness alone" and the one that looked like it was from a troop, said he'd never be as good at anything in his life as he is at killing people.
I don't know if this project helps them or not but some of them seem to need to get it out somehow, talk to someone.
People who really love to love.
"I cut the hair of kids I babysit while they sleep."
That's a freaky bitch right there......!!