I finally mustered up the courage and decided to make a secret public

Perhaps, you have the same suspicions as I do, and since the secret is called a secret, why should it be made public?

Alice Munroe uses seemingly contradictory phrases like "open secrets" to tell us that there are secrets we share. It was so private, so hidden, but it was enough to be a thread that connected you and me.

In "Open Secrets", everyone has a secret in their hearts and lives carefully, but occasionally, they will take out a letter and write a letter and have fun.

✉ Some people write letters to strange soldiers on the front line, and some are oblivious to longing for possible love;

✉ Someone crosses the ocean, changes his name and surname, but still corresponds with his old love, trying to re-enter his life;

✉ Although she was in prison and had nothing to rely on, she also tried to write letters to her old friend who had grown up in the almshouse together, telling her why she had gone into hiding.

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In solitude, they crave to talk, to be understood.

Perhaps we have the same desire.

Perhaps the deeper the secret, the more it needs to be listened to and understood.

I suddenly remembered that Geloy, a Filipino photographer living in the United States, had launched a long-term Q&A call on Instagram, inviting strangers from all over the world to tell them what he had never said but always wanted to say. One of the daughters wrote:

"To Mother,

From the day you said I was ugly, I didn't stop loving you, I stopped loving myself. ”

Inspired by this, we wanted to create a network "tree hole", hoping to give those things that were once sealed or secrets that we didn't want to talk about to others have an outlet to shout.

Perhaps your story will be a salvation for others, or perhaps the outpouring of others will be your comfort. Or perhaps, the process of telling the story itself will allow you to rediscover your inner self.

As Monroe writes in the eponymous chapter of "The Open Secret": Although she is already looking at the open secret, it is only when you try to tell it that you realize how amazing it is.