Introduction to Secrets

People are made up of two things - records and reputations. They weave together to form a sort of double-helix that makes up who we really are and how we are perceived, therefore us. No chemistry necessary. Reputation can be anything, really. Just how you appear to the public eye, not necessarily truth. The public has one eye. Everyone tends to make one uniform decision, really - when you get down to the basics. I mean, why do we even think we have to make decisions? It's just a matter of who looks twice. The people who look twice have gone past the reputation and into the records. Records is where your mortality shows. People who have always admired you then learn you're only human (whatever that means!). Your secrets are revealed.
Some people prefer to live by their reputation, because sometimes the reputation is better. Sometimes, they just don't want the world to know that they're mortal. Every now and again, there is someone who really doesn't care - and likes to show their records. They have no secrets, making their records their reputation. That way of life tends to be more stress free.
Fact: When someone first meets you they make 5-11 assumptions about you. [Remember: You are not the victim, you are the criminal - we all are both.]
Fact: It will take approximately 4 encounters for them to let these assumptions go.
So if your heart is on your sleeve, there is nothing to assume, correct?
So now, I am presenting you to secrets... Every now and then I'll give you a secret of mine. Usually with an explanation and/or story, assuming of course that it is not a story already.
These will be in no particular order.
Enjoy. ;)