A Gamut of emotions filled Beasley Coliseum Sunday night as students and the general public gathered to see Frank Warren creator of the Post Secret website.
Post Secret is a project started by Warren in 2004. Warren asks complete strangers to send him their secrets anonymously with no restrictions on the content. He then posts these secrets to his blog for everyone to read. Since Post secret gained popularity he has also published five books and had Post Secret appear in a music video by the rock band The All American Rejects.
Secrets are sent to Warren at his home address on an array of materials including fast food bags and even a potato.
Except for occasional laughter at a funny secret or one of Warren’s jokes the large crowd filling Beasley Coliseum was quiet. Warren shared some of his favorite post cards with the audience ranging from marriage proposals to confessions of peeing in the shower, to which Warren himself admitted.
Warren also showed secrets that had been banned from his five Post Secret books. Usually banned due to nudity or depictions considered crude by his publishers, one was written on a picture of a woman’s breast.
“I enjoyed seeing the banned secrets, it was like being let in on a little secret of our own, just for us.” Said Eric Desmarais a Washington State University Sophomore.
Tomorrow night Warren will be visiting Gonzaga University in Spokane However this showing is not open to the public. Gabe Miller a student at Spokane Community College used this opportunity to visit his girlfriend in Pullman and see the presentation. “It was better than I expected and I would definitely see it again.” Said Miller, “I feel he is the type of speaker that mixes things up so no two speeches are the same.”
Warren also covered suicide prevention and told the audience that the best way to know whether someone will kill himself or herself is to ask them directly. “There are two kinds of secrets,” Warren said, “those that we keep from others and those that we keep even from ourselves.
At the end of the presentation Warren opened the floor to the audience. Brave audience members lined up at two microphones and one by one confessed their secrets. The audience clapped and encouraged as some speakers cried and others expressed anger. “I didn’t speak, but I have never felt more supported by complete strangers.” Said Miller.
Warren thanked people for sharing and acknowledged their stories whether humorous or tragic.
“The children most broken by the world, are the adults most likely to change it.” Warren said before leaving the stage to sign books.
Warren’s presentation in Pullman was so popular that it had to be moved from the CUB senior ballroom to Beasley Coliseum to accommodate.
Warren will be in Washington for two more days and then will be moving on to other states in his live spring tour that ends in April. Post Secret books can be found in the Compton Union Building Bookie and the website is updated every Sunday. -CMM
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