Imagine a jar that's filled with sweets of all kind; hard boiled, gummies, lollipops and sours with an assortment of foil wrapped chocolates in dainty shapes, and let's not forget a few big bars of chocolate too.
Now imagine you're given this jar and are allowed to eat as many as you please or until they're all finished.
So you starts off simple and pick a gummy bear, it's easy to chew, and the colours are fun.
Next comes hard boiled sweets and you unwrap it and gobble it up.
Surely I can have another one you think, even though you can hear the echo of the adage that too many sweets will ruin your teeth.
You shrug it off and take a long piece of red liquorice and it's gone within seconds.
Should you pick the blue wrapped chocolate or the one in gold?
What does it matter, you eat them both at the same time and it's a sensation of sickly sweet caramel and bitterness from the dark chocolate.
You really like this
So you continues going for more, yet still there is this voice in your head and you can picture the frown on the dentist's face in disapproval at your indulgences, but you don't care, you're in the moment and not only does it feel good it tastes good
You try a sour patch and the tanginess excites you so eat almost all of them
The problem with lollipops is they take a while to eat, but with the right flavour it's like a seductive caress to the tongue until it's all dissolved, and the fruitiness of it lingers for a while longer.
Then your stomach starts to feel queasy and you know you ate too much but are convincing yourself otherwise because you don't want to regret your guilty pleasure
The ache starts to grow intense, like torrential swirling in your stomach and now you don't know if you're going to be sick
Why is it that the things that are bad for us are often addictive and so good like the sweetness of sugar
This taste is like something familiar
This sweet is sin.