Secrets are the invisible burdens we carry, some need to be told, and some need to be kept. The trick is knowing the difference.
I paid a heavy price for learning a valuable lesson on secrecy, when in the midst of assuring a friend who told me a secret, I shared a secret with the friend. Little was I to know that this friend subsequently (despite having made me the promise of not divulging it) shared it with 3 other friends.
Am I naive?