CROSSROADS || WHAT TO DO?

These sorts of things leave you at crossroads. I want to even assume that the person divulging such a secret knows of my relationship with the person being talked about.
But what if they didn't and I just sort of linked connections?

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I've had to ponder on this question so much that I found different angles to it. There's this saying about a secret no longer being secret once it is said to whoever. While I don't subscribe to that, because I consider that anyone who shares their secret with me trusts me and are being vulnerable. Still, I really don't know.

I want to assume that the teller never asked me to keep their secret a secret but then, it should be common knowledge, right?

See, if anyone trusts me with whatever information that should stand as confidential, it is only right that I keep it that way. It's not very easy to, in situations as this but, what if they never told me? Then what would happen would happen.

But don't buy that. Not in the case that I am privy to this. I can hold onto a secret until ever but in this case that harm is involved(I care little if it's to a loved one or not), I will have to spill.
It should be the right thing to do, isn't it?

I recall playing this game with some friends when I was younger. We would jump from the ground and onto a chair. We had done it so much that one of the bench's legs pulled. One of us was absent at the time. Before she returned, one of the other girls said we shouldn't tell her what had happened and just let her jump on. We knew she was going to fall alongside the bench though and the laughs was what we cared about.

Well, she returned, did the jump and fell with her face to the floor. We hadn't expected the injuries she sustained because no one thought that she would. It was really heart wrenching and our laughter caught in our throats. We felt so bad. It may have just been children-play but see how messy it got. She later told me how bad she felt that me who she was closer to than the rest would let that happen to her. I felt really bad. I hadn't done the right thing.And now compare that to serious scenarios.

See, how I think of it is that, I expect anyone who as little as act like they care for me to .protect me if they can. It's a simple act of love.

If the secret-teller had been involved in something fishy that could cause another harm, he/she should answer for his wrong. It'll be super difficult to stand between two people who I supposedly like but I cannot be privy of such information early enough and let anyone suffer.

Terrifyingly, you cannot tell what approach to take on the matter. Speaking up could get you in trouble too. But however it is, I can tell that the instinct to protect would come jumping in first. There are different scenarios it may take and all might require different approaches, like maybe asking the teller to divulge the tale to the one that might be in harm's way and other methods. All what I know is that, I would do what I think of as right, in that moment.

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