Feels So Good

Sydney J. Harris once said, ~Many people feel "guilty" about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.~ If you think about it, there are certain things in life that are considered enjoyable and yet to other people its something that possibly could receive strange, as well as, disappointing looks. It really depends on what a person enjoys doing that has you smiling both inside and out. Whether people know about it or you have completely kept it on the down low for a number of years it makes you happy to the point of feeling like a little kid again. Let me ask you this simple question, what is your guilty pleasure?

It would be safe to say that each one of us has a particular food, dessert, or candy that if we had the choice would eat all day and probably regret later. When you think about it, you not only turn into a drooling Homer Simpson, but you also do your own Carlton dance because you enjoy eating it that much. We've all seen grown adults lose all sense of themselves as they either savor each bit or go hog wild at what they are eating all-the-while making that proverbial I'm in Heaven noise, which can be somewhat disturbing to hear. In any case, whether it's a favorite family dish cooked the way you like it or a certain type of flavored ice cream you'll continue to eat it until the day you die.

For practically all women and some guys, shopping is considered not just a guilty pleasure but also an all out adrenaline rush that can bring them into a zone. A zone that is somewhat scary to think about as they have an itchy charging finger to buy something that they may or may not even need. As a guy, I've never found spending hours in a store/mall appealing and yet for women they enjoy the thrill of the hunt for jewelry, clothing, shoes, as well as, clothing related accessories such as purses, which are either expensive or on sale. Even though they have to deal with a possible big bill at the end of their shopping extravaganza, they absolutely don't have any regrets about it whatsoever.

Without a doubt, there are certain movies or a movie that each of us love to watch over and over again to where we never grow tired of it. Movies such as Spaceballs, the Goonies, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Sandlot, and Napoleon Dynamite are just some of the movies that we not only know all the lines to but also say them in that particular character's voice with the physical performance aspect of it as well. As sad and disturbing as it may sound, it's part of the pop culture phenomenon to where it's not ingrained into our subconscious, we use it in our daily lives when the appropriate time calls for it...most of the time. For the question can be asked, what is your favorite movie and do you know all the lines from it by heart?

Personally speaking, I kept something on the down low for a long time that is a guilty pleasure and it concerns a long running television show for kids, which has been on for 13 years. At the age I am at now it's embarrassing to even reveal this but I am going to anyway and because of this particular show I hope I don't lose any major cool points or friends for that matter who have no clue I watched it. So since 1993, I've been hooked on the Power Rangers television series and I have continued to enjoy watching it, but I DO NOT...I repeat DO NOT buy the merchandise associated with the show. In retrospect, it's the guilty pleasure in life that may seem weird, strange, stupid, embarrassing, and/or wrong to others and yet to us it feels so good.