Private Vs Secret conversations….
Look up ‘Secret’ and ‘Private’ in the dictionary…. They have very different meanings!
Not everyone has any business to poke their noses into the ‘Private’ affairs of you… your family… your department… your organization! Your privacy is to be respected. It is not a question of hiding anything… You have the right to keep things to yourself or to your group and if someone asks, you absolutely can deny….
A ‘Secret’ on the other hand can go either way… It is something you are deliberately hiding!
The Universe has secrets… Nations have secrets… History speaks of “secret societies” which protect important life impacting facts that are best kept hidden as the everyday man, as in you and me, cannot handle those facts gracefully….
Companies have secrets and the ones working in it sign non-disclosures and non-competes swearing to keep those business critical elements hidden from the outside world… from its competitors!
Now, when you are having your top secret hallway conversation that prompts you to stop talking when your manager or you colleague walks past you… what are you trying to hide?
If what you are hiding protects, you are the elixir that strengthens… that binds! If on the contrary, you are spreading internal rot… you are the poison that needs to be removed!!!
Let your inner conscience prevent you from ever being on the dark side….
