Best kept secret

The post title above refers to the next instalment in Jeffrey Archer's The Sins of The Father. I picked up the first in the series and talked about it here, and I thought I would agonize for several months before I get to read SOTF, but heck no, I bought it yesterday. A new book. With full price at MPH. I think I agonised enough before finally deciding to buy it no matter what. To some people RM31.90 is a small feat but not to me, after I found out about this store.

Book price aside, TSOTF is worth every cent I spent. It was imaginative, detailed and so freaking wicked that I want to tweet Jeffrey Archer everyday to finish the next book quickly!

But the title of the book does not only refer to JA's next book, it is what I felt I had to write about after stalking reading a blog post written by a person who questions whether other people's life is as interesting as hers, albeit the fact that the person did nothing to try to get to know other people.

How do you measure a person's determination? Do you read his tweet/fb posts everyday? Do you consider people who tweet/post everyday about what they're doing or what they are about to do as a determined person? Or do you measure it by their success? 

I noticed that some people like to, well, sort of "publicize" their thoughts on social networking sites. Sometimes it can be inspiring, for example people who post quotes from other famous people. Or people who just want to say good things to their friends. On the other end of the line, there are also people who recorded each and every steps of their everyday moves, just for the sake of letting people know that YES BITCHAS I AM WORKING HARD AND IT IS EVIDENT IN MY TWEETS.

To me, some things are best kept secret. A person does not have to post/tweet about his every move on online sites just to be deemed as determined. If you believe that you are doing something right, there is no reason to make sure everyone knows about it. As long as a handful important people in your lives know, that's all that matters.

That's all I want to say. That some things are best kept secret, with the word kept here acting as the action verb for the noun secret.