I know, I know. No more "In the life of..." blog posts. No one wants them. Blah blah blah.
Suck it up or close out the window. Doesn't matter to me.
So tonight I went to the Postsecret event in the Ira Allen Chapel. It was started by Frank Warren. Postsecret, for those few unaware, is a community art project where people send their secrets on postcards to a man. He puts them up online, and travels the country talking about secrets. There are also books that are sold full of secrets.
Not to sound completely disgusting and almost cliché-ish, I found the event to be surprisingly unifying. Having someone go up and share their secret at the end was amazing, emotional, personal, and almost terrifying (even with me just sitting in the audience). It was impossible to know what secrets would be revealed, what secret might connect with my own personal secret. I have to give props to anyone brave enough to share their secrets with everyone there.
Everything talked about tonight was something that I am sure touched at least one person in the audience.
In the end, it ended up being one of the best five dollars I have ever spent.
4 comments:
I really wanted to go to this but I forgot about it.
What drew me in was a straight man professing his love for Professor Tony Magistrale and I can really relate to that.
Yeah, postsecret was amazing! I have been a longtime fan of the project ever since I found out about it 5 years ago, when my cousin showed me the first book.
I was really shocked at how open the students were to share their secrets at the end portion. If I had had a secret as serious as theirs I would not have had the guts to share it.
I totally loved the slideshows that he had put together as well as his cause for his project in conjunction with the suicide hotline. props to all american rejects!
I kept seeing all sorts of adds for this PostSecret even, and I seriously had no idea what it is. I was thinking, "Well, Secret is a type of deodorant, so maybe this unknown event was sponsored by Secret?"
After looking at the website I found out that I was very much mistaken, and I wish I had gone to it. I saw a bunch of different post cards online through various websites; some were happy, some were sad, and others were hysterical. It sounds like it was a really cool thing to go to...I hope they do it again next year!
I think it would be cool to bring that guy to my college. It must have been pretty powerful to watch these people get up and share their secrets with others. I would love to be able to see this presentation!
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