Everything we do in our growing up has been done before. But it needs recognition and validation each time for each one of us - public, private, and secret.
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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.
I've done quite a lot of growing up in public, which has been tricky at times.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
I've always been really interested in secrets - how people find ways of doing things without telling anyone else in order to keep themselves feeling safe in the world.
I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
The best thing we can do is develop our own.
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
I'm learning how to keep my identity and personal life sacred. It's a matter of knowing my limits. I don't have to give everything that's asked of me.
Honest, simple work for young people is essential to their well-being.
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