Secrets

Just had a random thought provoked by looking at this website http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ it is a blog in which people post in their secrets as written on post cards into the blog. A simple enough concept but the thing I realized whilst looking through it is that by giving away something so precious and close to them as a secret (dark, embarrassing or otherwise) we as the reader get a short glimpse into who they are as people, perhaps even gaining a deeper understanding than if had we met them and knew them in person given that these secret would not otherwise be told.
In this way our secrets become an important part of our identity. I was very much inspired by looking over these postcards and am now interested in incorporating that into my website...perhaps by getting friends to send in secrets and making the focus on our what we hide is still as very much a part of us as what we like to display. I feel its a bit of a twist on the idea of identity, as generally we focus on the parts of our identity which we show to the world, rather than the parts we hide, yet these still make up who we are as people.