To advertise its "Secret" branded deoderant for women, Proctor and Gamble have been soliciting "secrets" from people, sent via web or text message, and these koan like messages are displayed in Times Square. You can also view them on the website. Reading people's "secrets" made me feel pretty damn sane. Here's a sample:
IM STILL A VIRGIN AND IM 42. [Caps for emphasis. Damn. Get this person laid already.]I dated a brother and sister separately and secretly. [This person needs to meet new people.]
I have a birthmark that looks like Bill Clinton. [Hot.]
I was so depressed I ate 19 donuts. [Britney Spears in the house, yo!]
I got a facelift and I continue to deny it to my friends. [Trust me, all your friends know and talk about it behind your back, Michael Jackson.]
My two children do not know they are from a previous marriage. [This family is going to have a SWEET Thanksgiving someday.]
I won the lottery and never told my family. ["Trust me mom, I just FOUND this Rolex at the zoo.]
I never graduated from college but my parents think I did. [This will be a Seth Cohen plotline in The OC a couple years from now.]
See, don't you feel refreshingly normal and good about your life?