#5 Every person on this earth holds some deep secrets—the most concealed ones. Never conveyed to the outer world. Then there are these that don’t go as deep but are kept far within themselves. Sometimes these unknown to the world are pleasant, bitter, hateful, and sometimes remorse. Whatever it is, on some scale of emotions, it is on edge. This is why it has been put deep down within themselves. If you wonder why pleasant, ecstatic memories need to be hidden, it is because some of them are purely anecdotal. Nobody beyond them will be able to comprehend or experience those truths. Hence best kept concealed.
Though this is the case, there are moments when the external atmosphere arises to the emotional pitch of your memories. This is the moment of vulnerability, like water at 100 degrees Celsius. On reaching this degree, water doesn’t boil. It needs a slight push, and that extra energy makes the water boil. If it happens to be that you are in such an external atmosphere around you, then realize that you are vulnerable. A gentle push, the slightest provocation, a moment of chaos, and the secret is out. Things pan out when the unknown becomes known. Depending on the just new realization revealed to the world, things unfold.
If you reason why people open up, you realize it is usually when people are in a state of heightened emotion. When someone loses somebody, grief opens up them. Words come out of those relationships that were never spoken of. It also happens when people are in red hot anger. In grief, those words are taken with empathy. But in anger, it is disastrous. All those opinions and thoughts kept within to keep relationships burst out. People opening up out of anger is the most fatal and truthful event. The truth that was put aside now surfaces, and questions come up. Anger turns into doubt, suspicion, grief, and so on. Opening up also happens when people are delighted and often snowballs into better situations.
Then there are cases when people open up out of frustration. They cannot anymore keep it within them. Suddenly, they open up to release the pressure built up. They feel good. Often these are about situations that are beyond their control. Also are cases when you slip your tongue like a former American President did on his middle east affairs recently.
Nevertheless, if you master yourself, none of these scenarios will touch you. You open up when you want to. And that’s freedom.