We all have secret guilty pleasures.

These are the things we enjoy, that we would rather people not know about.  Whether that be something perfectly normal for a 33 year old man like enjoying a bubble bath, to something completely heinous like owning all James Blunt’s albums.

But what about Innocent pains?  By this, I mean the opposite of the guilty pleasure.  Those things out there that we know we should enjoy or appreciate, or wish we did, but for the life of us we simply can not abide.  We might even have faked an interest in them in order to appear normal.

I mean things like, the plays of Shakespeare, a good Whiskey, the ballet, expensive wine.  I am not saying that these are mine, obviously.  I am just giving you some completely random examples arbitrarily suggested by my subconscious whilst writing this post.  You should not read anything into the list because I really really like Shakespeare and fine wines.  Honest.

What ‘finer things’ do you fake enjoyment of in order to appear normal?

ballet · guilty pleasure · innocent pains · shakespeare · whiskey