Halloween, which I have always enjoyed, was even more fun than usual this year. Michael and I spent the day before fixing up the garage to look spooky and boobytraping it for the unsuspecting seeker of sweets. Becca planned a party for about 2 dozen of her closest friends. Even though fewer and fewer kids seem to be out trick-or-treating, Halloween still seems to be anticipated and enjoyed by the great majority of the people I know.
I have often wondered what the attraction is. Is it just a fascination with the spooky or bizarre? Perhaps a desire to confront our fear of death? Or just maybe, it is an opportunity to laugh in the face of it. I wish we had the same tradition as in Mexico where on the "Day of the Dead" they eat little skulls made of sugar. Not only would we be laughing at death, but eating it, accepting it as a part of life, and ultimately surviving it.
I think it's just trying someone else on for a day. For one day, no thinks twice about you being a witch, a jock, a trannie, a rock star or a hobo. Eating death and being an alter-ego - the best day of the year!
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