Halloween :)

Why does everyone love Halloween so much? Is it the candy, dressing up as anyone you want to be, or the fun parties? When little children get excited about Halloween it makes sense, they get to put down the school work and go door to door saying “trick or treat” and then get a hand full of candy. I know some houses even give away the king size candy bars, hot chocolate, water bottles, and cotton candy. Also, some houses have a hunted theme before you are able to get the candy. Those houses always scared me when I was little, I would never approach them, and my Dad would have to hold my hand as I walked back to get the candy. Why is hard to go alone but when you are holding someone’s hand it makes it all better? I think it is because people naturally do not like to be alone and the presents of someone makes it all better; that is why people tend to be social on a day to day basis. The haunted houses always had the best candy though, maybe it was because we had to go through the haunted part and the prize was at the end and the prize seemed better because we had to work hard for it.

Teenagers love Halloween because Halloween parties are sometimes the best. I know when I was too old to trick or treat for candy, all my friends and me went out trick or treating for UNICEF. The best part was you got money and candy. J This was a lot of fun because you got to pretend you were a little child, the only difference is you were not trick or treating with your parents you were trick or treating with your friends. After trick or treating, we would all go back to someone’s house and watch a movie, dance, and eat tons of candy. My biggest problem with that though is people do not put the candy wrappers in a trash can or even in a pile outside the bowl, they put them back in the bowl. That always made me a little upset but I would not let that ruin my evening.

College students love Halloween so much probably because the craziest parties happen on Halloween. I hear stories of people going out and not returning until about 6am. It was really cool that this year Halloween was on daylight savings so we had an extra hour to either sleep or party. I cannot remember if every year is like that but that was nice for this year. Most college students look forward to Halloween; it is proven by all the Facebook statuses saying I cannot wait until Halloween.

Parts of me think that college students love Halloween because they can pretend to be someone else. Like if a very conservative girl dressed up as a sexy Dorothy it is perfectly fine, no one thinks twice. If she wore anything sexy any other day of the year people would think she changed or something. It is crazy how they can get away with it.

Adults probably get excited because they feel like little kids again. They can be whoever they want to be. Like playing dress up as a child, only not and it is as an adult. Also, they get to watch all the little children dress up and even take their children trick or treating like they did when their parents took them when they were children.

I decided to look up Halloween on Urban Dictionary.com and the first definition was “An annual excuse for girls to dress like sluts and get away with it.” The second definition was “celebration where little kids dress up and get candy, teens dress up, get drunk, and go get candy, and adults dress up, get drunk, and give out candy, funny how things all work out.” WOW! I was right and it is funny how the definitions are right about that crazy cycle J

I decided to look up Halloween on Dictionary.com and the definition that pops up is “the evening of October 31; the eve of All Saints' Day; Allhallows Eve: observed esp. by children in costumes who solicit treats, often by threatening minor pranks.” That definition is a better one than urban dictionary.com but it is funny how it eludes to pranking each other. I guess that is how trick or treat came to be.

I decided to look up the origin of Halloween on Dictionary.com and the first thing that popped up was “c.1745, Scottish shortening of Allhallow-even "Eve of All Saints, last night of October" (1556), the last night of the year in the old Celtic calendar, where it was Old Year's Night, a night for witches. Another pagan holiday given a cursory baptism and sent on its way.Hallowmas "All-saints" is first attested 1389.” That is really cool how Halloween used to be where people believed that it was the start of a new year and now people believe that all it is is one night a year was you can dress up and be whatever you want to be.

I hope everyone had a safe and an awesome Halloween, I know I did. I went to the IV party and we watched movies, danced, ate food, had a costume contest, etc. We did not even watch Halloween movies we watched The Dark Night and X Men. They are both really good movies but I did not get to see the whole movie because I jumped in the middle of them and then I did not watch the end of them. It was really cool they way they had it set up because each apartment had something different going on in it. For example, room 6 and room 4 were the movie rooms, room 5 was the food room, and room 8 was the dancing and games room. It seemed like everyone at the party had a blast and I know I did. I hope everyone enjoyed their Halloween. Happy Late Halloween!