My guilty pleasure was Sailor Moon

   We all have secret little guilty pleasures when it comes to movies, TV, and music. Everybody has that show or tune that we have to hear or watch because it's the best, but if anyone knew you liked it, you'd be the laughing stock of campus.      

   For me, I used to be ashamed of the fact that I religiously watched the anime series Sailor Moon.  

   For those of you who don't know what or who Sailor Moon is, it was a show about these girls who had super powers and would transform into defenders of their own planets.  

   There were Sailor Moon, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter and so on as well as a masked handsome hunk, appropriately named Tuxedo Mask,  with whom I fell in love with, of course. The girls protected Japan from the "Neggaverse", where all the bad monsters came from.  

   I thought that the Sailor Scouts were the coolest thing running…my parents thought it was the dumbest show on the air. But to me it was as addicting as Swedish Fish!  (You know you can't resist Swedish Fish.) I even had the little wand with Sailor Moon on it and I would pretend that I had super powers and was a "sailor scout".  

   One night when my friend was sleeping over at my house, my parents started talking to her about how I always had to watch Sailor Moon and how much I loved it.  They asked her if she liked to watch it too, but she had never heard of it before and laughed at me for watching it, along with my parents.

   I felt so embarrassed because I always wanted to look grown up and mature around my friends when they were at my home and When my parents told her about that, all of my maturity went down the drain.

   It makes me crack up now!  I think it's the most entertaining thing in the world to look back and see how much I loved watching a television show.  

   What's even better is when I told a friend I worked with about how much I used to love it he said, "No way me too!"

   It just goes to show that there's really no reason to be embarrassed about anything that you like because somebody, somewhere out there probably is just as in love with it as you are.