I Would Rather Save A Soul Than Keep A Secret

I Would Rather Save A Soul Than Keep A Secret

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All my life, the Secrets of people is something I esteem highly. I feel if a person should be able to tell you something he or she has kept from others, then the person must have judged you and come to a conclusion that you are trustworthy, it will be very bad on your side if you betray that trust at the end of the day.

I am not trying to brag or something but almost all my friends and all my siblings including my Mom find it relieving to confide in me. I was chatting with a friend some time ago, and she was like, "Emreal, do you know why I love confiding in you"? I said "No", she then replied, "I have never heard anything I told you on the lips of another person". I was so happy to hear that testimony.

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It's not easy to keep words, there are times you won't just know how you spill them out in the midst of an interesting conversation. It happens, this is why I am very careful about getting too excited with conversations, I try my best to keep away from topics that talk about others. That's the mystery behind my ability to keep secrets.

But inasmuch as I treasure the good reputation I got from people for keeping secrets, and as much as I don't want to temper with the secrets of anyone, I can't hold my peace when the secret given to me has to do with the downfall of another person.

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I know people can be funny, sometimes someone can intentionally tell you of his bad intentions towards someone just to test you. This is why wisdom needs to come into the picture.

If someone close to me tells me about the evil intentions he has toward someone, the first thing I would do is verify how true the information is by pulling the person's legs to get everything in detail. If it happens to be that the person is serious about it, then I will try my best to get in touch with the opponent and verify if there is any outstanding misunderstanding between them.

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If the information I get tallies with what I heard from my friend who told me about his intentions, then, I will look for a way to resolve the problem on the ground. Depending on how big the issue is, I think the least I can do is try to reconcile the two of them with a third party, preferably an elder.

My reason for this is that if I just go ahead and tell my friend's enemy that my friend has an evil intention towards him, I would just look like a gossip. Again we all know how evil the hearts of men can be, who knows if the person will also go and plan evil against my friend after getting the information?

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Although it depends, there are cases where you can pass a warning signal to the person. thank God for technology, you can simply send a mature text with an unknown number, I think that will help too. This is to prevent the matter from getting worse because I am sure if you tell the person directly that so and so, is planning evil against you, you will cause more harm than good, in fact, you might even implicate yourself.

There was a time, while I was in college when My friend had a misunderstanding with one of the popular guys in our faculty, it got so fierce that they almost exchanged blows, thank God for the people around who intervened and everything was settled.

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A few days later, my friend came and told me about the plans he was having to beat up the boy with some guys he brought from home. I know my friend so well, he was really going to do it. At first, I wanted to let it just slide since it's none of my business but later I thought it's not nice to know about something like this and still let it happen, what if they beat him to death?

What I did was, I reached out to the boy secretly and told him not to follow one of the lonely roads he often takes to lectures and he shouldn't walk lonely roads alone. I didn't tell him what was going on precisely but I believe a word should be enough for the wise.

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I don't really know what happened next but I am sure he heeded my advice and he escaped my friend and his gang. if my friend had executed their plan, he would have definitely told me about it but he said nothing about the matter, meaning nothing happened.

There's this gym center in my school, my friend always goes there to lift Weight, one of those days, I followed him there and I was surprised, I saw the guy he had a misunderstanding with gyming there and both of them were relating well. I was so happy with the sight. Well, that's life.

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I can't just sit and watch others get harmed because I want to keep a secret. I know I took so much risk by going to tell the boy to be careful with his movement, that would have implicated me if he had reported the matter to the school management but what if I didn't and he got beaten to the point of losing his life? Don't you think I am also responsible? I knew something bad was coming and I didn't do anything about it.

There is time for everything, I can keep secrets but not the ones that would harm others, if you discovered that I betrayed you in the end and you choose to leave, it's fine, I can't risk the lives of others for the sake of anything at all.

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