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Halloween. (Just me rambling about Halloween... move along)
15 years ago
My favorite holiday is quickly approaching... Skeletons, ghosts and bubbly caldrons; Black cats, pumpkins, and haunted trees... There is just so many things about this holiday that makes me all giddy inside it's ridiculous.
For most people it's just a fun day where you get to play dress up and have random strangers give you FREE candy for it. For me, however, it is much, much more. It's not just a day, no; it's an entire month dedicated to the creepy, the crawly, the things that lurk in the dark, that go bump in the night, the things that most don't care to even acknowledge exist for the other months of the year. Some of my fondest memories of childhood are of October festivities; from Trick or Treating, to Haunted Houses, to harvest festivals, or even just plain ol' homeroom parties. (This is also the reason I give for me being such an avid horror/ thriller movie fan)
October doesn't even feel like a month in the normal sense to me. It feels as if I've traveled to some magical far off land where everything just "feels right". I mean, even the air breaths differently for me! Of course I could just be some crazy, scary-psychopath Halloween freak... Meh, poe-tay-toe, poe-tah-toe. :P
It saddens me greatly when on Halloween night I see less and less children scurrying about in search of candy and even fewer lighted porches for them to run to. My mother always made sure that I had a costume and was able to participate in the local on goings even when we had no money to do so and would have to come up with a costume out of old clothes and imagination. On one hand I curse the parents for keeping their children from such an experience, on the other I realize all of the danger tied into the season with kidnappings, robbings, moving vehicles/ dark clothes, and even poisoned candy. -_- It always scares me to think of what Halloween might look like once I have kids that are able to participate.
This season, even if you're not going to be home, leave the porch light on and if nothing else leave out a bowl of candy. It will make some kids night. :3
And yes I am fully aware of what Halloween used to be/ started out as; I've done my homework. This is just what Halloween means to me and nothing more.
For most people it's just a fun day where you get to play dress up and have random strangers give you FREE candy for it. For me, however, it is much, much more. It's not just a day, no; it's an entire month dedicated to the creepy, the crawly, the things that lurk in the dark, that go bump in the night, the things that most don't care to even acknowledge exist for the other months of the year. Some of my fondest memories of childhood are of October festivities; from Trick or Treating, to Haunted Houses, to harvest festivals, or even just plain ol' homeroom parties. (This is also the reason I give for me being such an avid horror/ thriller movie fan)
October doesn't even feel like a month in the normal sense to me. It feels as if I've traveled to some magical far off land where everything just "feels right". I mean, even the air breaths differently for me! Of course I could just be some crazy, scary-psychopath Halloween freak... Meh, poe-tay-toe, poe-tah-toe. :P
It saddens me greatly when on Halloween night I see less and less children scurrying about in search of candy and even fewer lighted porches for them to run to. My mother always made sure that I had a costume and was able to participate in the local on goings even when we had no money to do so and would have to come up with a costume out of old clothes and imagination. On one hand I curse the parents for keeping their children from such an experience, on the other I realize all of the danger tied into the season with kidnappings, robbings, moving vehicles/ dark clothes, and even poisoned candy. -_- It always scares me to think of what Halloween might look like once I have kids that are able to participate.
This season, even if you're not going to be home, leave the porch light on and if nothing else leave out a bowl of candy. It will make some kids night. :3
And yes I am fully aware of what Halloween used to be/ started out as; I've done my homework. This is just what Halloween means to me and nothing more.
There will be all kinds of festive food and drink, Halloween inspired games and contests and I'm thinking of even carting everyone over to my parents house to do a scavenger type hunt in their woods. :3
It's gonna be awesome.
Statistically speaking, numbers of crimes aren't really that high, but the media's attention to them. And the number to times a child has been poisoned by halloween candy is miniscule... And mostly the candy was given to them by a family member, not a scary psycho laying in wait to inflict random horrors on kids.
Though I know you know all this, because I'm pretty sure I remember ranting about all these things together.
But reflective tape is an awesome thing. Protecting your kids isn't bad... But shutting them off from the world because something "might happen" is.
Most kidnapping happen in family. Most bad things that happen to kids, their families do to them. -rantrantrant-
I think people get even more freaked out around Halloween... Because Halloween is out of the norm.
Okay. I'm going to shut up now. BLAAARRRGGGHHHHHALLOWEEN ISN'T BAD LET YOUR KIDS HAVE A LIFE
This time for real, I'm done. x3
Parents who coddle their children don't do them any favors later in life.