Comments on: My life was stolen from me before it began

By: Aboriginal Life

Aboriginal Life — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:03:44 +0000

I wonder if this is about Residential schools. That’s what the building reminds me of. There are generations of children these days coming from parents and grandparents who were taken from their homes, away from family, language and cultural traditions and placed in residential schools to “integrate” them into white culture. As a result there are countless Aboriginal people who are without a sense of identity, come from broken homes, dysfunctional communities, etc.

Suicide rates are sky high in Aboriginal communities, compared to the rest of Canada. Life and opportunities are often bleak and seem inescapable for some…

By: Peace

Peace — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:32:32 +0000

My thoughts went to rape. Maybe this person was raped by a stranger. My thoughts also went to someone writing this,not about themselves, but about a loved one that was lost to an unknown murderer.

By: fearful_

fearful_ — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:50:27 +0000

maybe its for a person who was born with a disease from birth that renders them with some disability which they will never lose hence the simple drawing of being repressed
?
its still very sad
i hope they find happiness

By: Shauna Lee

Shauna Lee — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:31:58 +0000

Thats what came to mine too

By: Stephany

Stephany — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:53:48 +0000

It’s about whatever you want it to be, be it adoption, abortion, or something totally different.

By: ?

Mon, 03 May 2010 01:49:14 +0000

Why would adoption be put with life stolen?
My mum is adopted and veery happy, 3 kids, a husband who loves her, adoptive parents who she adores/adore her, an also adopted sister who is the same , who also has two kids. My mum is wayy happy.
She met with her biological mother once and never wants to see her again. She is happy with what she has.

As with the postcard I think whatever it is, only she/he wants to know it. Is not ready to tell still but is on the way and this is how they want to show it. They don’t want others to know as such. They just want it out there.

By: DEAFBLUIEGURL33

DEAFBLUIEGURL33 — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:43:52 +0000

Maybe it have something to do with kidnapping?

By: sara

sara — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:25:04 +0000

My reason for this saying would be from suffering depression from a younger age, before I got to be an adult.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:41:20 +0000

I don’t think it is about adoption. I was adopted from birth. I have no idea who my biological parents are, and I never will care to know. Being put up for adoption didn’t steal my life, it gave me my life. And I am thankful. forever.

I think it is about overcontroling parents. The ones who planned the straight road to nowhere the writer wants to go.

By: amy

amy — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:17:27 +0000

I think that maybe it is about abortion. Has anyone ever read the the story “hills like white elephants” for a Lit class? it’s a short story about abortion and the picture reminded me of the scene from the story.

By: brookellen

brookellen — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:30:22 +0000

That is exactly what I thought when I first read this but I may be biased because that has been my main topic of thought for a while.

By: jessie.

jessie. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:36:36 +0000

this makes me sad.

it doesnt necesserally havee to make sense to anyone else.
it’s is just someone expressing their feelings.

By: Rachael

Rachael — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:45:38 +0000

this is about the stolen generation in australia.
look it up.

By: celly

celly — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:48:36 +0000

There is definitely a story behind this, but I don’t know what it is. I won’t guess either. i’ll just appreciate it for what it is – an expression of deep emotion and a kind of poetry.

By: Ally

Ally — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:13:02 +0000

Can’t be… or it wouldn’t be someones secret.

By: jonie

jonie — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:19:20 +0000

dont be a hater

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:31:13 +0000

I think that is a good interpretation. I often feel resricted somehow. I don’t walk across the street at the bus stop while waiting for the bus, but I can. Why don’t I? Many things restrict people so that they can’t live fully.

By: heatherjo04

heatherjo04 — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:25:14 +0000

I think it’s about adoption, also.

By: miss post secret

miss post secret — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:02:06 +0000

amen! thats what post secret is all about. there are no details because you are supposed to take it how you want to. if it helped the person who posted it, then it did its job.

By: VHM

VHM — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:45:44 +0000

ITA. It’s about adoption. Adoptees lose their original life/family, and yet everyone around them will tell them how lucky they are and how they should feel grateful.

They don’t know who to blame, or if they should blame, or who they are in relation to anyone else.

Adoption steals one life and substitutes another, and you don’t even get to meet most of the people involved in the transaction.

By: Erimentha

Erimentha — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:57:41 +0000

I agree that it is about adoption.

By: Marie

Marie — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:05:27 +0000

I believe it to be about adoption as well.

By: birth name ejypt

birth name ejypt — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:29:27 +0000

seems like it’s about the experience of life as an adoptee, when our destiny and identity as a part of our biological family ends, and a new identity and destiny is bestowed upon us, for better or for worse.

By: Bill Bartmann

Bill Bartmann — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:52:58 +0000

Excellent site, keep up the good work

By: tame

tame — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:40:18 +0000

this secret may of come from one person but, it deals with everyone of us.
whether we know it or not, we are held back something.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:29:20 +0000

This makes me sad..

By: Reason

Reason — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:32:38 +0000

How about…Its open observation. Whatever you get out of it, that’s what it is.

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:46:02 +0000

This reminds me of something someone told me one time. They was getting married after his tour. The wedding was planned for two weeks after he got back. One week before he was set to head home, he was killed.

By: Anonymous...

Anonymous... — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:24:11 +0000

When I read this secret, I think of my own life. My mother got rear-ended while pregnant with me, and so I was born prematurely. I’ve had health problems my whole life, and I’m almost certain to die sooner than I otherwise would have. (I’d explain, but the explanation is lengthy and can be googled.)

So whoever rear-ended my mother that day irrevocably changed my life.

I think of that when I see this secret. We all see in it what we have in ourselves. That’s why there are so many answers.

By: Gecko

Gecko — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:02:32 +0000

Maybe it’s about someone who was born with some kind of illness or defect that was caused by force or accident to the mother while she was pregnant. Example: A pregnant woman is injured purposefully and her child has a mental or physical defect due to the injury.
Thats what I got from the secret, of course I could be wrong.

By: Huru

Huru — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:46:44 +0000

I think it pertains to bullying and teasing…but it seems that im the only one…

By: echo

echo — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:59:09 +0000

I can see how noone gets this one…but for someone who is adopted like myself…it was as if they posted my central theme for life in a few short words.

By: Phantom

Phantom — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:50:58 +0000

…awesome…this might pertain to Obama as well…

By: Sly

Sly — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:30:17 +0000

No no no..
It’s about dragon ball z. Someone’s just pissed at Vegeta.

By: Chelseaa

Chelseaa — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:07:22 +0000

its about abortion. its kinda obvious after the first couple of words:)

By: finnagain

finnagain — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:08:01 +0000

a story in eighteen words

By: tawed

tawed — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:55:43 +0000

my thought is that from birth the world we live in steals our lives because with the way life is now we have so many restrictions that you simply can not live it to the full extent,`and we have no idea who to blame.

or that from life he/she has felt something holding them back, not alowing them to truely live it, but he/she does no who or what to blame/

By: isabelle

isabelle — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:48:34 +0000

every one who commented to this has a blank mind.
its the simplicity of it.

pure simplicity.

By: Julia

Julia — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:33:36 +0000

I thought the point of this was not to understand but simply to have someone to tell with out being judged?

By: A

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:11:25 +0000

my interpretation of this is also adoption.

Basically it follows that the person was adopted at birth, and it was a closed adoption. and the “thief” of their life were the parents who gave them up.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:32:19 +0000

anyone familiar with the federal reserve act and the feds shareholders could understand how this applies to a whole generation of americans..

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:29:52 +0000

This person, who sexually manipulated me when I was younger, turned my gifted mind into a prison.

By: Haunt

Haunt — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:36:22 +0000

This one strikes a chord with me. This could easily have been my secret. In my case, it is illness that stole my life. I’ve always been sick. I had a glimpse of what health was like in high school, but shortly into college I got so sick I had to come home, and now my life is permanently changed. I’m now disabled and can’t work. This might seem like bliss to those who can work, but not having to work is different from not being able to work when you want to. It isn’t much fun when you want to work but can’t and feel like a mooch because other people have to work to take care of you. Aside from that, being in pain and having very little energy, making even trivial tasks difficult, means you can’t spend the time you aren’t working having fun and doing what you want. It isn’t what I want to spend my life bed-ridden. Before my life really began, before I could ever achieve any of my goals or go through with any plans I had for my future and the kind of person I wanted to be, it was all taken away. And for many, many years, I went without a diagnosis, with almost everyone (including doctors) thinking I was just making the whole thing up because I wanted to be lazy. At least I have a diagnosis now. It’s vindication that I’m not crazy. My heart goes out to whose who still don’t have their diagnoses.

By: AdorableEmu54

AdorableEmu54 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:13:04 +0000

Maybe adoption?

By: Evershrike

Evershrike — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:24:51 +0000

Or. It’s not about abortion.

By: Evershrike

Evershrike — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:23:40 +0000

Guess this one will always be a secret told that is still a secret I like it. and whatever happened to you, I am sorry…good luck, and I hope you find what you are looking for

By: secretsxoxo

secretsxoxo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:43:19 +0000

Judging by the picture, someone broke into his/her home as a child and raped him/her during the night. The assailant was never found. That’s my interpretation anyway.

By: amber

amber — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:14:39 +0000

could of been a swap at birth….

it happened to me.

By: den

den — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:26:34 +0000

My intrepretation is poverty or class. I can see that if someone is born into the “wrong” life circumstances that they are likely doomed to failure before their life begins. Being born “on the wrong side of the tracks” can be an almost certain poor future. Although, I see hope in the fact that my own husband beat the odds through determination and the grace of God’s hand.

By: Blessing

Blessing — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:34:47 +0000

its about rape or molestation people.

By: Lizziebeth

Lizziebeth — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:20:38 +0000

I thought it meant that she (I’m assuming it’s a she) was either raped or got pregnant very early, and doesn’t know who did it.

By: K

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:11:21 +0000

It’s adoption.

By: hannah

hannah — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:25:08 +0000

rape duh

By: seb

seb — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:01:26 +0000

It doesn’t make sense that its about abortion, even though I thought of abortion, because aborted fetuses can’t write post secrets so this is obviously nobody’s secret. At best its a political gimmick, if its about abortion.

By: meghan

meghan — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:05:34 +0000

it’s about abortion. get it now?

By: sarah

sarah — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:41:44 +0000

I might be wrong but, when I read it, the first thing that came to mind was someone being raped or abused at an early age, by some unknown assailant.

By: amber

amber — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:37:43 +0000

i understand it actually.

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:50:57 +0000

no, I don’t get this either

By: kaity

kaity — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:25:44 +0000

am i the only one who doesn’t understand this?