Halloween is a fun time. I remember going trick or treating with my kids. All the places we went to were safe places like churches, where they gave out special treats to the neighborhood kids. Dressing my kids up for Halloween gave me so much joy, watching them act out their costumes’ characters.
Children are so creative about what they want to wear on Halloween. But most children don’t like to dress in clown suits. I could never get them to pick out clown suits, though one year they dressed up as doctors. One child had my brother’s cap and gown on. It was so funny because they will always imitate people that were helping people.
Something about Halloween: It lets us pretend to be anybody we might want to be. Making believe is fun as long as you do it in a positive way.
When I was a kid, I was terrified of all spooky things. I was afraid to go to a funeral and couldn’t sleep the night of the funeral.
As I became a teenager, Halloween was one of my best times of the year. I can remember knocking on doors, yelling “trick or treat,” it was lots of fun.
People would come to their door, dressed as vampires, skeletons, werewolves and mummies. And they were very spooky, but it was funny back then. During Halloween there is something good and something bad that usually goes on. The good is the kids get to dress in their favorite costumes and see all types of monsters. When they finished trick-or-treating, they go home with a big bag of candy.
The sad and the bad controversy is when someone poisons the candy and one of the kids get sick and dies. This scenario has been going on for years. I pray it will not happen this year.
Personally, I can’t get into Halloween because I associate it with evil and witchcraft. I don’t see either of these as fun. Therefore I don’t feel like celebrating Halloween. I did enjoy the candy for a few years as a child.
