Halloween.

So Halloween is coming up, and for this year I have decided I want to dress up like the child from the Spanish horror movie, El Orfanato (http://www.programasdetv.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/el-orfanato.jpg) I think that it will make for a couple of fantastic laughs. I’ve never been much of a Halloween spirit myself, however, it might be my sisters last year in the US depending on where she goes to university, so I better make the most of it. For years I have wondered why the Americans are just enthusiasts when it comes to celebrating the night in which evil spirits rise again from the grave? So with this question I set out to do some glorious research – I wikapedia-ed it! So Halloween was a celebration that the Celtics would celebrate then called All Hallows Eve, just like in Sleepy Hollow, the day where they would bless and convert pagans. Now we call it Halloween because we can’t be bothered to say all three words, so we sort of mashed them together and then spread the word that a new celebration was born! We are supposed to dress up to honour the Celtics who would wear masks to scare away the evil spirits and not have demons present themselves as humans among them. Now we like to trick or treat, and I admit, when I was younger I had fun but now… well that’s another story. Halloween is just another day like school where I have to decide what to wear, and that’s already a fiasco, I really don’t need another (lol). The commercialization of Halloween has just turned a traditional holiday into a breeding ground for consumers to buy and compete against others, ‘who has the most decorations?’ ‘who offers the best sweets?’ ‘who has the best costume?’ what are we, 5 year olds?