Secrets: the Existence and Uncovering the Truth

Though I know it's not just prevalent in my family, I can't help but to grimace with the revelation of a new carefully guarded secret. Of course in a family environment, because the bonds are so close, they are a lot harder to keep - though not impossible.

They keep little things, my family, and major things from each other, and I'm still clueless as to why. Even the smallest things such as the phone number of a brother or sister are guarded with almost hostile defense. These types of things I find almost humorous sometimes, while at others, completely annoying.

Who am I to be annoyed with any of this? As the saying goes, "It is what it is." And though these little secrets pop up like poisonous mushrooms all throughout the landscape of my life, surely none of this is isolated to just my folks. Not long after I had learned of the secret keepers in my clan (which was at relatively young age), I began learning the secret keepers in my best friend's family as well.

Just like in my family, other families have exposed things like, someone's older sister might really be their mother. Or someone's uncle is really his or her father. Or someone's grandparents had eight children before they were legally married. I'm pretty sure you know what I'm talking about, because your family has it's own deeply buried and guarded mysteries.

Though its not a complete surprise to us that our government is the secret keeper of our country, we citizens still find it very hard to believe that these secrets are even true, once they have been uncovered. We love our family, yet we are able to believe the worst about them. In the event we doubt some disheartening truth, we go to a member in question and ask first hand, or other members. Are we able to do this with our government? Can we look into the eyes of our government and discern whether it is lying or not? No. And it is much easier to deny that there is or ever was any real truth in an accusation than to go forging ahead and find the answers on our own.

The CIA has admitted to planting crack cocaine into communities of Los Angeles, so is it such a terrible stretch to imagine that our president just might be responsible for 9/11? It has been established that the government knew about Katrina years in advance and did nothing to prepare the region for it. Yet no one looks into the death of Margie Schoedinger who had accused the president of heinous crimes against her and her husband and has mysteriously ended up dead.

Though many are harmless, saving someone from slight embarrassment, secrets can be a very dangerous thing. If those who love you can keep you in the dark about what's going on in the history of your own world, it is hazardous to believe that your government loves you so much and has so much integrity to keep you enlightened - honest and noble in their intentions. You already know they exist, so it's up to you to uncover them.