your best kept secret

I'll be the first to admit that I cherish privacy - having things that I keep to myself. So why does it bother me so much when a friend keeps something from me?

"Do you mind me asking?"

"I do."

I know better than to take this personally. This friend is close to me and always means well - and this friend has as much right to a private life as I do. It is awful of me to expect this person to divulge personal information to me just because it's me. There are certain things that, if this friend asked me about them, I would refuse to share.

But this might keep me up tonight. 

I selfishly hope that one day I will hear all about this secret. But mostly I hope that this friend finds exactly what this friend is looking for - whatever it is, and whether this friend can tell me all about it or not.