the.com/confessions
admitting the truth to feel lighter, then immediately wondering who else is listening.
means a voluntary disclosure of something you did wrong, usually made to unburden guilt or seek forgiveness.
from from latin confiteri, to acknowledge fully; the church turned it into sacrament, augustine turned it into literature, and reality tv turned it into content.
augustine's bookfirst great memoir was basically 400 pages of guilt
legal weightcourts still argue over coerced versus voluntary ones
catholic boothoriginally public, privacy was a medieval upgrade
usher's albumsold four million copies of admitting he messed up