Tuesday, July 17, 2012

"They can connect us to our deepest humanity, or to people we'll never meet.. Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas; of frailty and heroism, playing out silently in the lives of people all around us."
-Frank Warren, founder of Postsecret


I think the concept behind Warren's brainchild is ingenious. You walk past so many people each day not knowing the tumultuous worlds that go on beneath their otherwise nondescript experiences. And Postsecret lets so many of these people (half a million actually) that struggle with the heavy, heavy burden of their secrets share them anonymously, letting them float weightlessly now and there is a sort of cathartic thrill in that act and an essence of shared humanity that is to be treasured I think.