What’s your guilty pleasure?
I don’t have.
Today’s Question by the reader : Juan
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Sweets ;o)
I only feel guilty when I’m not taking pleasure in what I’m doing.
Theming.. Writing poems…
In future blogging may also get added
Reading books ( fiction and non fiction rather than reading more about global awareness and management)…..and wine( had it very often during last month)
.. Daydreaming!
LOVE,
Thelma
I think – the meaning of guilt to various people means various things.
and I feel it all comes from our minds being conditioned.
If we can get the mind to – DE – condition – nothing is guilt.
As long as you dont other another person – consciously , are careful about your health . and drink / smoke – in moderation –
its all good.
Because – we are here , on this beautiful mother earth – on a journey..so may as well soak in the wonderful experiences and the lovely friendships and relationships and forget about the guilt! :0)
Cheers to everyone!
Suni
I totally agree with Santosh Kalwar.
I do and I don’t.
Chocolate – the dark one (more than 70% cacao) it is listed as an anti-cancer.
So it’s “Choco, choco, way to go! Yamm!”
mine is sexual sin…so shameful it’s hardly even been mentioned…
I am speechless..
Well, I raised in a family to feel a lot of guilt. I consider myself now a gulit presence. For the part where the guilt is with pleasure, I smoke many cigarettes, I think about all the close people that I know and died, I don’t allow myself to cry when it comes to cry, but I cry when I listen to a piece of music. I like to paint, to sing but I never do it. I eat chocolate, chips, when in reality I like salads and fruits…To claim that I need to be myself when the reality I am going to be depressed if I do. The most important in all this, that the guilt becomes a part of my life and I can’t sparate it from me. It’s a huge subject between the consciouness and the inconsciouness.
when im thinking about bad things……when i dont have Love-Allah in my mind….
Me? I easily get addicted to books. It’s guilty because I’m only supposed to buy one book per month because I have to focus on my studies but I sometimes buty a lot more than one.
What is yours, my dearest Paul from Austria?? :} [You asked for it!]
LOVE,
Thelma
i feel guilty for leaving work for tomorrow, for spending too much time in the internet, for reading something for my pleasure rather than for univeristy… :) For oversleeping and overeating… etc.
:) hehehehehe
Guilty? I am not quite sure if there is anything that gives me pleasure that I feel “guilty” about. I feel more guilty, I suppose, for not allowing myself, at times, even the most moderate pleasures – the joys in life that so many others partake of on a daily basis and think nothing about. I think I have an ascetic side to my personality that is hard to overcome. I got it honestly – from my father – a man who’s own asceticism won’t allow him salt on his food, butter on his bread, nor even an aspirin if he has a headache. Following this same line, I have a tendency to forgo too many, far too many, pleasures that, in moderation (as Catherine points out), are no cause for guilt at all.
* sex (with the right person, and only one person, not multiple partners)
* drink – a glass of wine here and there
* a cigarette – so long as I can still as easily do without
These are just a few of the many points of pleasure that, in my estimation, I need to allow myself the more of. And guilt? That is one luxury that I can certainly do without. So long as one is not hurting anyone else, and so long as the pleasures one is partaking of (in moderation) are not destroying the life-force within themselves, I don’t see any place for “guilt” in the arena of pleasure. It seems such an archaic concept, an obvious mechanism of social control – like the concept of “sin” – so long used by the organized religions, as well as by the state, to moderate and even dictate how individuals and groups relate to one another and to themselves. I am not suggesting that anarchy or all-out hedonism be loosed upon the world; I am simply suggesting that perhaps we have quite enough “guilt” already to suffice – enough pointing of fingers at others and at ourselves. Perhaps rather than categorizing activities as “sinful” and thereby instilling fear and guilt everywhere, we should lighten up just a bit an attune ourselves to the unique consequences of any particular action we undertake.
O my G-d my guilty pleasure, is to enjoy my best existing absurd,,,its hard to explain but i have experienced in my life an ABSURD which i can feel and see every day of my life,,,, its a kind of a forbiden game but its not really a game, and its here…. thats my kind of guilty plesure,,, and it gives me a lot of power,,, and i am lucky to be able to have it,,,,i started to feel all of it 4 years ago,,, and its just an amazing,,
Owning so many books but to only have read a few.
chocolate… :) and alone time.
I think I have.Many….Because I was grown up in a strict severe athmosphere.Sex Was a quilt,as well as any other thing.No high mark was good ever,no money brought home,none of my lovers accepted,well one ,the one gived them so much money they cannot spend,but leaved me….So,summary.One my friend girls said:No thing that brings pleasure is moral or legal,or gets one fat.lol
Hoje quando ouvi a palavra grade, pensei na prisão que estou criando pra mim mesma, quando me perco a maior parte do tempo na net, esquecendo o mundo la fora, que as vezes é cor de rosa ou cinza, mas é real…
Aqui procuro só momentos agradáveis, é um prazer real, mas ñ deixa de ser visual, porisso meu prazer culpado!!!…
Que guerreira posso ser? sentada bisbilhotando enquanto o tempo passa? Já comecei o Ano com uma lista de bons propósitos, citando em primeiro lugar -1* – enfrentar obstáculos no caminho….
Quem sabe amanhã começo!
Playing videos games from time to time.
Over eating sometimes.
These arent really guilty they just seem like a little less than ideal choices.
I love going to Whole Foods, a natural market that features rather pricey yet excellent foods and products from all over the world that are natural and organic and sustainably produced. I am inspired by the atmosphere of the whole place. I go to refresh and to think, dream and to plan. I appease my guilt by telling myself that I will only spend twenty dollars, but of course I am fooling myself. I go in through the doors and am immediately assailed by sights, sounds, smells and tastes that please my spirit. I get a cart and place cranberry Italian sodas, pure cane sugar form Hawaii, organic Cara Cara oranges from Spain, a wedge of handcrafted soap fragrant with essential oils of rose and lavender, a bouquet of lavender roses, a slice of chocolate almond tea bread, a tube of all natural lip gloss tinted a seductive shade of wine with sparkles in it, a box of Om tea by Tazo,… each trip may yield a different collection of pricey yet excellent items in my cart, and when I know I’ve gone well beyond my twenty dollar budget, I head to the self check out and negotiate with the computer who greets me, “Hello, welcome to Whole Foods.” And I, with a smile of pure delight, knowing I have spent far too much money but so happy to do it because these items brings me true and genuine pleasure at being alive, gratitude for being alive and able to buy these lovely things,reply back to the self checkout computer, Thank you!” and scan my items and place them in a 100%recycled paper bag with a handle on (the very best kind of paper bag there is to hold these precious items and I pay the seventy five dollars and twenty two cents that is the total, quelling the twinge of guilt at being so extravagant. I am pleased, I feel golden liquid pleasure running through my veins because know later on I will excitedly call my friend and invite her over to have tea that is fragrant and delicate and cake that is both hearty with whole grains and rich with chocolate while we look outside of my downtown apartment whose rent is far to high but whose view of the skyline is perfect… and we talk about our dreams and she understands my passion for tea and space and writing and love and she believes in me, that I can become a wonderfully received published writer, that I already am, and that my tea loft dream will provide a sacred space for lovers and friends and families to come and enjoy each others company and share their dreams with each other, that life is good beyond the wars and economic meltdown simply because the tea is so soothing and the music is so mellow, and the lavender roses and lilies in the crystal vase by the window are the absolutely most perfect shade of purple, a divinely royal color if ever there was one, that beauty is what we are called to create and celebrate and share. This is my guilty pleasure.
What is your pleasure!!
Pleasure should not result into guilty feelings.
I am mad about books,Crazy about art,Wild about nature.Comforted by water.These are my greedy guilty pleasures.