Post 101 - The Transparency Conundrum...

So I'm thinking about transparency. I just deleted the post I was about to write that had to do with my views on a topic that is particularly hot in my head right now. Instead, I now have a bunch of questions about transparency.

I tend to be a very transparent person. My theory goes something like this:

• We all have secrets that we don't want anyone to know about us.
  
• These secrets make us feel pretty badly about ourselves because we think we are the only people with these secrets.
• If we all talked about our secrets, we would realize we all have the same secrets
• Then we wouldn't hate ourselves so much, and we could get on to forgiving ourselves.

The thing is, I don't know if this theory holds any water. I try to not have any secrets, and do a pretty good job at it. I tend to be a really transparent person as well, and I struggle with this a lot. Sometimes I think it's a good thing that I'm transparent, sometimes I think it's a bad thing. Sometimes it makes people respect me, sometimes it makes people think I don't know when to shut up. (Which, let's be honest, I don't.)

I guess the question is, am I right? Is it okay to be transparent? Or should I start keeping a few more secrets? Should I start living a life that's a bit more obtuse, a bit more closed? Or should I continue being an open book? I just don't know.