Do You Want to Know a Secret ?

"Listen do you want to know a secret
"Do you promise not to tell woh woh woh closer
"Let me whisper in your ear
"Say the words you long to hear
"I'm in love with you oo..."

I work in healthcare and don't have much opportunity to speak of love. In my line of work, few people talk about love and I find myself showing scant little interest when folks want to talk about sex. Sex to me is rather personal and since I neither diagnose nor offer my opinions or advice on the matter, I have little reason to hear about it.
I'm charged with keeping secrets. Not only that, I am also a person who tells others that certain pieces of information are not for public knowledge. I listen to legal matters. I file grievances at work and stand up for employees' due process.
I recently told someone at work that one of the best things about growing older (or maybe about working where I work) is that I find I see less and less eye candy. In 15 years at the same place there have only been two people who made my head turn. One has left for another place.. The other has been known to me for so many years that I now think of him as family. And I'm not the kind who engages in hanky-panky with family.
Another thing about me that crosses my mind is my reaction when someone shares his HIV-status with me. Are you telling me this because you are interested in me and you want me to know? Are you telling me this because this information is supposed to then force me to reciprocate and tell you what my HIV-status is as well? I remember how I used to hate explaining to people what psoriasis was (and they have ads on TV for that). What makes the Universe think that I would be willing to share my HIV-status with fellow humans.
Lastly, I have been laughing and shaking my head about women I know who talk about their consciousness raising efforts I've always considered the term and the activity to be high level BS. The dictionary definition is
consciousness-raising [ kon-shuhs-nis-rey-zing ]
noun
Psychology. a group-therapy technique in which the aim is to enhance the participants' awareness of their particular needs and goals as individuals or as a group.

any method for increasing interpersonal awareness or sensitivity by teaching people to experience a situation or point of view radically different from their own:The women's group has tried to change macho attitudes through consciousness-raising.

an act or instance of increasing the awareness of one's own or another's needs, behavior, attitudes, or problems.

I consider it BS because those who practice it often come from a place where they believe that their morals, beliefs, practices, etc are at a superior level of evolution and it is the other person who lacks awareness. Sometimes I think the leader is the one who needs to be put into a radically different mindset. I avoid such people like the plague and when I am invited into groups that smack of such things, I generally opt out. Sounds like Werner Erhard and his cult.

Anyway, that's my mini rant for today.