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The original thread was first published in the AskReddit community, when the user u/DesignerRole1244 asked folks just one question: "What’s your dirty little secret?" It was about a week ago, and now the thread has more than 5.4K different comments and, of course, over 5.1K upvotes. So, welcome to a selection of the most interesting and touching tell-tale stories from there, carefully collected for you by Bored Panda!
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Edit: I guess I should have said Father of only daughters. LOL.
In this selection, you will find a variety of exciting, werid, and sometimes even unexpected revelations. Someone played some minor dirty trick on a friend or relative many years ago, someone even slightly broke the law and, although they remained uncaught, still feels remorse. And this kind of "virtual confession"—although it doesn't provide atonement for sins—can still bring people some relief, pouring out their souls online, can't it?
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I ended up having to put the horse down, lost most of my savings, and took a huge confidence knock in the ring. I'd do it again.
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He remarked on how amazing it was that I’d got it so orange, and how much he loved it. I didn’t tell him. I then had to put food colouring in my pumpkin soup every year hence. He looks forward to pumpkin soup night and we make a big thing of it and it’s one of our favourite traditions. I still have to put food colouring in to get that orange colour he likes. I’ll never tell him.
"In fact, a person, no matter how gloomy and unsociable they may be, still remains a social creature, and interaction with other people is still 'embedded into our firmware.' So, the longer we carry some secret inside us, the more we want to share it with someone," says Maria Kryvosheeva, a psychologist and NLP coach, whom Bored Panda got in touch with for a comment.
"It's absolutely not for nothing that even in world folklore, in numerous tales of different nations of the world, often living half a world away from each other, there is one and the same plot. How a person, having learned some secret, cannot keep it inside themselves. Of course, from this point of view, the Internet with its anonymity - even if often seeming, turned out to be very useful."
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Co-worker stops by and asks if I scratched it yet, I hadn't made up my mind on what to do yet, so I said no. He left. My heart is beating like crazy. Did I just win 10 grand? Yeah, I'm gonna just say it wasn't a winner next time co-worker drops by.
I'm looking at the ticket and consumed by possibilities. I feel kind of like Gollum at this point. I turn it over to see how to redeem it....and yeah, it was a prank ticket. THANK GOD I saw that before he stopped by again. I would have looked like such an a*****e. And I would have been.
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Edit: Wow, Im surprised how many people there are like me! I think thats cool, I always thought what I had was exceptionally rare. Cheers to all my fellow Cyclops and people with different levels of blindness. I dont normally share my little secret, but Im glad I did here.
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A significant part of this selection are simply situations where folks got into a mess—constantly recalling them with both shame and laughter. "By the way, the ability to perceive your own failures with humor and talk about them is a sign of a mentally strong person. This, by the way, is another reason why people love standup so much. After all, stand-up comedians often resort to self-irony as their main comic technique," Maria adds.
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And we sincerely believe that you, too, have a few similar stories from your past. So, if you need to talk it out, then the comments section on this post might be the perfect place to share your tale. And while you're at it, please feel free to read these as well—after all, learning new secrets from others is also damn exciting!
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No regrets.
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Just been asked a question that I didn’t hear…😬.