Sometimes, the obvious stares us right in the face, even when we know when the truth is lurking right within us. Secrets buried deep within our thoughts that we carry throughout our lives and hope the truth never surfaces. The old saying goes, “The truth shall set you free!” Does the truth set you free, which you withheld information inside for many years, or does it continue to torment you even when you have divulged the truth?
Some families, not every family, have hidden secrets, but when we are growing up, we realize and figure things out on our own, and we believe that some truth is within our thoughts. Family affairs are costly, Jem! They may cost us our freedom of peace, or they may be our reckoning in which one day we must answer the proverbs that need to be answered.
Once we come of age, things start to fall into perspective, and understanding becomes our ally for the moment of truth, and things fall into place. When you ask yourself when you are older, “Why was I always treated differently, and everyone else is treated better?” You think back to clues that added up to what was then to what is now. You then understand and realize the people you had around you or grew up with made you pay for your mother or father’s sin. This is what is known as intergenerational trauma.
In closing, family secrets passed on from generation to generation are costly, but once the truth is out in the open, it will set us free and continue to suppress some of us for holding the secret. However, there is a caveat to this madness. There are two sides to every story, and maybe, just maybe, some things are worth keeping secret.
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