My Secret

My Secret
By Frank Warren
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Easily one of the most powerful books I've ever read. The concept that Frank Warren came up with is for people to write a secret on a postcard and mail it in. The cards then become part of the website or, in this case, a book. They are anonymous, they are therapeutic, they are frequently heartbreaking. This is a book to be considered, not simply read. I had to stop a few times just to think about something I had just read, a secret that someone in the world had been burdened with. Opening the book at random will almost certainly give one of these heartbreaking phrases. The one I opened to just now was": "Every day I pray that you will stand up at my wedding when the priest asks if anyone has a reason these two shall not be wed. I am counting on you." Powerful stuff here. Not all doom and gloom, though, there are some funny ones as well. "I think I'd enjoy life on a deserted island because almost everybody gets on my nerves." And some are both funny and sad: "I faked my own graduation."

10/10