In defense of guilty pleasures

 

 

Silence in the room! Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Watch out for the charges against you...   

Is it true that you give it EVERYTHING dancing like a saw when Camela's “I Dream of You” plays at your town's festival? 💃 Is it true that you are more hooked on the lives of the influencers that appear in your Instagram magnifying glass than on your own? 🔎 Is it true that you've been eating Christmas romcoms since November 1st? 🎄  

The verdict is clear: we find you guilty… of guilty pleasures.

Don't worry, you don't need to call a lawyer (the one I have posted here) because we are not here to judge anyone.   

In Siwon there is nothing that turns us on more than an unspeakable pleasure from time to time... and today we come to take our guilty pleasures out of the closet to defend them tooth and nail.

In defense of guilty pleasures (or guilty pleasures for those who did not have Magic English)

Por definición (y por traducción de Google) un guilty pleasure es literalmente un placer culpable. Es decir, son esas cositas que nos #PutoFlipan, pero que no nos atrevemos a confesar en público porque se salen de esta dictadura del buen gusto que nos ha tocado vivir.   

You already know: those “rules” and social norms that separate what's cool from what's not; what is good to posturing about what borders on other people's embarrassment; what you have to carry as a flag or what you better leave hidden in the gayumbo drawer.    

But why?   

Do we have to repent of those “sins” and pleasures that we commit when no one sees us? Should pop culture, series, movies, music or all the activities that raise our bilirubin also raise our colors? Are we condemned to feel bad for wanting to feel good?   

👊 IS-ME-TO-SEE 👊    

Pleasure doesn't have to be something in bad taste, or morally questionable, or bad for you or anyone else.   

So no matter how many stereotypes, prejudices or posturing that try to sneak in... Let the one who is free of guilty pleasures cast the first stone.   

Look and you will see.  

Our TOP guilty pleasures that (almost) everyone wants to enjoy without guilt

1. Steal from the hotel when you go on vacation

Towels, soaps, the “leftovers” from the buffet… and basically everything you can fit in your suitcase, which is what you paid for.  

2. Take the card out for a walk

Indulge yourself #becauseyoulovethem. Buy the same garment in different colors because it looks amazing on you. Make your life look like a Vinted ad.  

3. Be cheesy

In a world so Elite, you are so El Diario de Noa. Yours are ballads, cotton candy, crying with Pixar movies and spooning... even if it ends in a pinch.  

4. Marujear level Save me

Stalking your ex, gossiping about your work friends, looking at the WhatsApps of the person sitting next to you on the subway... It's not that you revel in other people's drama... but almost.

5. Unmask the geek inside you

What a pleasure to give yourself a LOL for the loles, rearrange your army of Funko Pops and above all... shine your lightsaber (😜).

6. Get hooked on "trash TV"

The most morbid reality shows, the most popular novels, the cheesiest series. And if you do a marathon until Netflix asks you “are you still there?”, they give you up to two diamonds.

7. May the ragatanga rhythm possess you

You know those songs that your colleagues laugh at, while you pretend not to replay them on Spotify? Score a choreo that you won't even be able to dance or the karaoke of your life... even if you don't tune like a cat in heat.

8. Letting out the F*ck Mr. Wonderful mood 

#Without filters. Hatear. Release poison. Shit on everything. Give it a go, once a year doesn't hurt.

9. All those things your mother wouldn't be proud of.

Stick a booger under the table, eat straight from the Nutella jar and suck on the spoon like there's no tomorrow, get out of your kelly in commando mode...

10. And whatever arises

Because there are so many little things that we are not going to tell on this list (which for that reason are unspeakable pleasures), that we are going to keep the important things. And here neither guilty nor innocent: enjoy.

So…

  • If you spend hours watching conspiracy theories on YouTube... 
  • If your legs shake when “Pobre Diabla” by Don Omar booms… 
  • If you know the Kardashians' life story by heart (and with pride)...  

Enjoy it to the four winds or behind closed doors, but enjoy it with a dirty mind and a clean conscience knowing that our unspeakable scoundrels are not incompatible with doing things well.

PD: And if you want to give free rein to pleasure (without being blamed for guilt)…   

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We do cool right,
Siwon