Learning Challenge: Post Secret

I'd never heard of Post Secret before, but I thought the idea of empathy challenges were interesting, so I figured I'd look into them.

Post Secret itself is a site that posts confessions from people—from big, heavy secrets like bad relationships or self-harm, to funny, everyday stuff, like sending anonymous mixtape CDs to the campus mailman. Really, the site itself is interesting enough from a human perspective, because it's a reminder about how different every person's life and struggles really are, and how we've all got stuff going on that we can't or won't share with anyone else. But it's also really valuable from a storytelling perspective: each post comes tangled in its own complicated web of story and character, and a lot of them are complex enough to inspire really multidimensional stories.

This is kind of a random side note, but I also find it really interesting that Post Secret goes on tours, with shows at different spots in different countries. Kind of like Welcome to Night Vale, I imagine, though I'm curious about how this differs, since there's not really as much of a performance component. Definitely something worth looking into.


Image Credit: Throwing Stones, by Pexels. Source: Pixabay.