It's true, even if it never happened...
Mar. 7th, 2010 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
corvideyeInteresting response from the guy who does Postsecret:
Q: "Frank, do you think any of the secrets you get are made-up?"
A: "I see the postcards as works of art and that makes the question about truthfulness more complicated. Is a secret true for the person who wrote it down, or for the reader who reacts to it?
"I believe the personal and shared truths that secrets reveal can have many layers. A fictitious secret can become fact after we tell it. Other confessions can become untrue over time depending on our choices.
"Maybe a "made-up" secret is your truth, even if you believe otherwise.
So in the strictest sense, I do not think each of the 500,000 secrets I have pulled from my mailbox contain the full truth – but I believe every one."
Q: "Frank, do you think any of the secrets you get are made-up?"
A: "I see the postcards as works of art and that makes the question about truthfulness more complicated. Is a secret true for the person who wrote it down, or for the reader who reacts to it?
"I believe the personal and shared truths that secrets reveal can have many layers. A fictitious secret can become fact after we tell it. Other confessions can become untrue over time depending on our choices.
"Maybe a "made-up" secret is your truth, even if you believe otherwise.
So in the strictest sense, I do not think each of the 500,000 secrets I have pulled from my mailbox contain the full truth – but I believe every one."
