Secrets! used to be what people dont want others to know. The very wrong you have done and trying to hide, yes that was wayback upto the mid 80s. Then personal sex life used to be a secret,even a ladies menstral period was kept a secret. Then you can hardly know who slept with who ,even the color of ones underwear was kept a secret. Think of anything personal and back then it would be a secret.
Then in Nigeria, our sitting rooms were the only public place for visitors, our bedroom was sacred and was kept a secret from others,one can only imagine how a friend's bedroom looks like,but one will never enter.Thats to show you the extent of how our private lifes was kept a secret back then in Nigeria.
But all of a sudden! like a sonic boom came the Socialising spirit and what we all didnt realise about socialising was;it was a secret sharing game,he who shares most secret wins! The internet is the propeller, now you can tell the whole world about your life in a minute.
As we were socialising,we are sharing more and more secret, we started telling more and more about ourselve,then we wanted more,we talked about our sex life,we wanted more we talked about everything to the minute detail.
Then we ran out of secrets,we started looking for more secrets at all cost cos we needed to share secrets,thats when paparazzi came up, then most of us got sold out on our secrets.....we started making new secrets by either intentionally doing things or making up lies. Now all of us are addicted to secrets,we buy papers,search the internet just for secrets.....truth is that we have run out of secrets. Secrets are sold out.
In Nigeria now, bedrooms are the most public place for visitors,people rarely use the sitting room, we now feel cool sharing our privacy, if you arent sharing secrets, people see you as Anti-social!
Anybody would believe anything that is whispered, even me!
