I love Halloween. I love the pumpkins, the bats, the ghouls and ghosts. The way it's kind if dark but also can be enthusiastically celebrated. I love seeing the lights in the dark. It's like having stars in the sky directly in front of you. It's utterly beautiful.

I literally wait 364 days a year for Halloween, and I wait 334 days a year for the month of October. I live for Halloween. A lot of people say that Halloween is the day where you can dress up in costumes and be someone other than yourself. That may be true, but I believe that it's the day where you can be yourself without restraints. It's the day where you don't care about what others think about you and just let go. You can wear what you want, and not care about it. You can dress up as your favorite fandom, or your favorite book character and really be who you want to be. I'm an avid believer that we connect most with fictional characters who we share traits with, whether or not we realize it. So if you were a huge fan of Natasha Romanova also known as Black Widow, and you wanted to dress up as her for Halloween. You could be a shy kid, but Natasha represent being a women whose strong, confident, and knows what she wants. That could be another side of yourself that you just haven't discovered yet.

But even if it's not, isn't it just fun to dress up? Even it it's as a joke? Halloween is so mystical, mysterious, energizing, unique, and not to mention...THE FREE CANDY! It's the one time of year where you can knock on doors, get candy, and when you go home have buckets of candy, and eating it all is totally acceptable! Also for those of you who can't wait for April first to start pranking people, Halloween gives you the option of receiving a treat or dishing out a trick. It's the best of both worlds.

Like things spooky? Well Halloween is also full of horrors. Haunted houses that'll make you scream. You enter the house and you think everything is going to be fine... But suddenly you hear a creek... then you hear a bang... Clunk... Thud... You sudden hear a screech... and suddenly you feel a cold breeze, a hand touches your shoulder and you suddenly turn around only to see someone with an axe. Yeah, if you want a good scare, a giant house will definitely give you one. Next the thousands of horror films at your disposal, and people dressing up as the creepiest things that will have you shaking in your boots. The classics like Saw, Nightmare on Elms Street, and Friday the thirteenth. There are so many scary movies out there that there will definitely be one out there to scare you. Not to mention that there are the Halloween ghost stories that will keep you awake for weeks. Of course you can listen to them any time of year, but listening to them on Halloween gives you more of a chill.

So Halloween is for everyone. It's for kids and adults, you can celebrate it however you want. Dress up, dress down, see a horror film, visit a haunted house or the forest of fears, or even just read a terrifying story. I love Halloween for so many reasons. Do you love Halloween? Or do you hate it? Do you not care? That's all up to you, but Halloween is right around the corner and I know what I will be doing on that day. Do you?