Sway

There are some things in life that you can never let other people be privy to.
I for one find that every now and then I'll find myself confiding in the perfect stranger.
Not always someone I've only just met, but someone who perhaps was an acquaintance that I've never really spoken to.
The problem with disclosing your hopes, dreams, fears, and secrets to someone, however, is that they often do the same to you.
And in turn they lose any unfamilarity they originally had.

Now I'm not saying that I don't tell my closest friends things.

But it becomes a lot harder to tell someone something once they've become so important to you.

Not just the usual somethings.

The things that have haunted you your whole life.

The irrational fears, moments of insanity, thoughts that began as seeds and are growing more and more everyday.

But why?

Because you're the same as everyone else.

Everyone else has problems, issues, ideas, and more often than not, you'll be treated that way.

The moment you decide that you have to say something, have to get it out, have to determine whether or not there is something wrong with you, the answer that comes back is the one you've feared all along.

That there are so many people like you. Essentially devaluing what is happening to you and making you wish that you never uttered it. Making you think that perhaps, they don't believe you. That you're just seeking attention.

Or even worse, there is no answer.
Meaning that either they're shocked, they don't understand, or they think you're downright crazy.

And once they're no longer a stranger, it matters if they react this way.

If they're a stranger and they desert you, it's no different to the beginning.