Today I want to talk about enjoyment, and being happy, without worrying about what other people might think.
There are lots of things that some people might tell you that you shouldn’t enjoy. This manifests itself in what most people refer to as “guilty pleasures”, and this is a term that I would like to challenge. I personally don’t believe myself to have any guilty pleasures, but that’s just because I like what I like and I don’t ever feel guilty about that fact. It may be that as a man you like something that has an aspect to it that is traditionally believed to be “feminine”, or vice versa. It may even be something that most people just consider to not be entertaining. For example, there is a portion of the films I watch and enjoy that most people would consider to be bad films, whether this is because they are cheesy, or they have too high an opinion of themselves, whatever the case may be. But sometimes, when I just want to chill out, and enjoy a film just for it being itself, these types of films are what I turn to. I don’t feel guilty about enjoying them, I just know my own tastes and am happy to enjoy it, whether others do or not. I have this same mentality with regards to everything, and that’s why I don’t have guilty pleasures.
Taking on this outlook, of enjoying what you like and never feeling guilty about it, is incredibly freeing, and also very easy to adapt to. All you have to do is, if you’re ever asked if you have any guilty pleasures, say no, because you enjoy everything you like, so why should you feel guilty about that? And if anyone tries to make you feel bad about enjoying something, tell them to consider that maybe it’s a problem with how they see the world, rather than with the thing in question.
I hope that this made sense, I’m writing it after a fairly long week at work and I am quite tired!
Stay positive everyone, and this is Conor, signing off
