Mid-week motivation

PostSecret – the power of digital intimacy

I thought I would share with you one of my favourite websites; PostSecret. I have followed this site religiously for several years and I have never missed a week. Part of me is always baffled when I mention the website to someone and they have never heard of it.

PostSecret is an online community project started by an everyday American, where he asked people to send their secrets to him anonymously on handmade postcards. I’m pretty certain Frank never expected the result and for PostSecret to change his life. Every week he receives thousands of postcards and he randomly selects around twenty to put online each week. There have been several book collections (I own a few), videos and there was an App. Frank now travels the world giving talks about PostSecret – he’s going to be in Edinburgh at Christmas and I desperately want to go.

PostSecret is now the world’s most-visited ad free website. It has the ability to bring people together (there have been marriage proposals, long lost relatives finding each other, and more) and create this feeling that you are not alone. Secrets each week vary from the mundane to scandalous to moving and just plain weird. If you have any secret, fear, private thought, you will see it on PostSecret at least once.

A lot of people I know, or follow in the blogosphere, have recently been talking about the uncertainty of life, getting older and making decisions. I think this week’s PostSecrets have been very apt with quite a few touching on this topic, so I decided to share them. The basic theme of all of them is it’s better to try than to regret, which has been my motto for this adventure of mine.

Enjoy.