Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.
Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.
At times it feels like the whole universe is pushing you to do something.
The most serious drawback to the telling-nothing approach is that it made that much more of a mystery of what had happened, and the nature of gossip abhors a vacuum of the unexplained.