Do You Want To Know A Secret

Another closely-guarded secret has been unearthed, this time without the help of Julian Assange. Internet Today has published the list of Colonel Sanders’ 11 secret herbs and spices, the recipe to KFC’s stranglehold on America’s fried chicken addiction.

What makes us want to know someone's deepest thoughts? Is it trust? It is the desire to make a connection with a person or a thing? Evolutionary monkey curiosity?

When someone asks if you want to know a secret (or vice versa), the question denotes two qualities: the deep sense of trust conveyed by sharing one and the august responsibility associated with knowing the secret.

Is it better to tell secrets? There are consequences and benefits of secret-keeping. Scientific studies have shown that divulging secrets does improves your health, but concealing them does not necessarily cause physical problems.

The fact that it is a secret makes us more curious. Do we want to know the secret because we think it may benefit us in some way, or do we want to know why it is a secret? We all have a skeleton or two in our closet, sometimes small and mostly inconsequential, sometimes large, perhaps criminal.

Where would humans be without a thirst for knowledge? The world around us holds countless secrets waiting to be unearthed.