Keeping It On the Down Low

I've never really been good at keeping my life a secret. In the dating sense of things that is. I never saw the point. Nothing exciting worth keeping a secret ever happened and if it had, who wanted to keep it a secret anyways? In any case, I never really saw the point of keeping things on the "down low".

The thing about secrets are- there really are non in life. They all tend to slither out one way or another. Most of the time by the secret bearers themselves. We make exceptions. We tell our closest friends, making them promise their souls and perhaps the first of their unborn children, to keep such secrets. My question is... Who would you tell if it wasn't on the DL? Sure it would trickle down to less active participants in the end, but wouldn't one start with their closest friends? We don't really advertise information about our lives generally so DL is pretty much a lost concept to me.

Point being. DL merely means putting up a front. "Down Low" implies faking it, a dis acknowledgment if you will of truths you already know and nevertheless acting surprised when it finally "comes out." It's all a bit ironic isn't it?

So what does DL mean? DL means... I can discuss it with you, but you can't discuss it with Betty, who already knows, but also dutifully pretends not to. DL means although you do discuss it with Betty, those opinions are not relayed back to me. DL means a room full of people who all know, but pretend not to and probably don't do that very well.

So the next time you keep things on the "Down Low," take your balls (pseudo ones if need be ), a big girl/boy pill, and f*** it cause you'll probably feel screwed either way.

- Simply Emily