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Secrecy is needed when the justification of an action will not be understood or accepted by an individual. In our society secrecy has a negative connotation. People are curious about what they don’t know but fear what they don’t understand. That fear is a mighty weapon. Fear can drive a woman getting raped to stab uncle in the chest with a near-by knife. Fear can cause a child playing with a gun to mistakenly shoot a fast approaching parent. Fear cause a nation, being lead by the best leader, to commit mutiny and murder. Secrecy is a tool of the enlightened to protect the people from themselves, and is often time essential to the role of leadership.
When I was in eighth grade I was kicked out a school I had attended for eight years. I was sitting in the lunch room on the other side of the cafeteria, when all of a sudden, people my class start coming over saying this kid by the name of Jelani was talking about me behind my back. But not thinking anything about it, taking them as a joke, I continued to stay on my side of the calf. Now instead of my so-called friends putting the situation to rest they continued to urge him on as well as report to me what he was saying. So as he approached he was talking and I really wasn’t trying to hear what he had to say. I really wanted to just go back to doing what I was doing. And I would have done it had it not been for my best friend at the time who decided to instigate the situation by telling me verbatim what he said, knowing it would anger me. To make a long story short I ended up getting into a fight with him. I chose this event in my life to connect with this topic because a crucial decision, a pivotal point where my best friend could have easily defused the situation, he decided to break secrecy and tell me. Now granted that’s my boy, and he’s suppose to have my back, It is still his responsibility to protect me. So instead of being a follower and edging me on to commit what would be a severe mistake, he could...