I know, October is the month of Fall which means family pumpkin picking, apple cider, caramel apples, cookie decorating, and pumpkin pie. But Fall also means Halloween. This day has drastically changed over the years. Halloween was originally a religious day where we would out the decorations, have parties, dress in costumes, and honor the dead. Once it got darker out, kids would walk up to neighbors doors and stick out their baskets and say "trick or treat". The costumes were usually handmade from their parents and the treats were fruits or healthy snacks. But of course, we are now in 2016 and the day Halloween has a pretty different definition and set of expectations.
When the millennia's were younger, we were so excited to be able to wear costumes to school, draw pictures of witches, spiders, ghosts, pumpkins, have Halloween snacks, listen to scary music and even play games in class. Halloween is a great day back then, most of us didn't go to iParty to buy our costumes but instead, they were handmade by our moms which made every Halloween special. It was also one of the rare nights we would be able to have our friends come over to meet for trick or treating and comeback with loads of candy after bedtime. At the young age, nothing about Halloween was scary, gross, or frightening but the day we celebrated what we are most afraid of...the dead.
As we have grown up, we no longer do any of those things, and it completely changes the way Halloween was meant to be. Most teens and young adults buy costumes or DIY and they are just about rated R. In college we don't usually wear masks or bloody costumes (thank god) but it is this day that college girls feel they can dress like a "slutty nurse", wear short skirts/dresses, and completely ruin the holiday. Instead of going in cute costumes and playing trick or treat, students drink and get totally wrecked. The parties have never changed, we still invite our friends over...but not for candy but drinks.
I used to enjoy Halloween when I was little, my mom made me a witch costume, I would dress up like my brother, listen to "Monster Mash" and eat candy with the fire going. It was cold out, but that's a different story. As I have grown older I have completely despised Halloween, it had nothing to do with the holiday itself but how people interpret it and celebrate it. The day to celebrate the dead is now used to scare the crap out of everyone, wear the worst costumes possible, put up frightening decorations, and etc.
