I Wish I Could Apologize to My Younger Brother For the Way I Treated Him Growing Up

I just discovered PostSecret.blogspot.com. I'm last to the party - it's already been made into four books - but if you also managed to miss it you should go take a look. It's by this guy, Frank Warren, who collects and publishes postcard secrets from people all over the world. It's a really lovely site.

In an introduction to his most recent book, Warren describes a talk he gave on a book tour:

I began my presentation by handing out blank postcards to everyone in the auditorium. I invited each person to anonymously write down a secret on a card and then pass it on. For the next hour, the postcards circulated and were read silently multiple times. At the end of my talk, I asked if anyone would like to stand and read the secret they were holding at that moment. A man in the front row stood up and haltingly read:

I wish I could apologize to my younger brother for the way I treated him growing up.

He sat down and exchanged a long look with the young man next to him. After more volunteers read aloud some of the other secrets that had been passed around, I collected all the cards. The man in the front row handed me the postcard he had read from, and the two men walked out together.

His postcard was blank.

I read that and began to cry.

I'm jealous that some dude and his brother went to a Frank Warren reading and mended their relationship over a blank postcard.

I never apologized to Kyle. I don't know what I was waiting for. I guess I thought I had more time.