THE ELDERLY EXPERIENCE OF HALLOWEEN PLAYED OUT FOR YOUNGER GENERATIONS
People across the world celebrate Halloween on October 31 every year. Some people think Halloween is the time to dress up with some spooky attire, eat candies, the holiday season, etc. They often forget about the roots of Halloween traditions. The origin of Halloween was from the Celtics festival of Samhain. In this festival, people light up the bonfire wear scary costumes to deflect the ghost of dead ones. Celts thought that the thin line between the two worlds becomes useless on Halloween night, and ghosts or spirits knock around on the earth during this period. Over time, Halloween got evolved into what we know today as common traditions such as pumpkin carving, scary outfits, tricks or treats, etc., but Halloween is much more than that. Some global cultures follow their regional traditions to celebrate Halloween with the original idea of honoring dead souls.
Although most Americans celebrate their Halloween night doing tricks or treats and dressing up, other countries have their festive rituals.
Halloween is an ancient tradition long unknown and forgotten by the crowds of today.
On Halloween, people would dress up in department-store costumes and head to the streets with their friends. They'd go from door to door, saying "trick-or-treat" to the people inside and receiving handfuls of candy from them. Yes, those were weird times.
I'm old. Many, many fortnights ago, I went on an angry rant here about how no one celebrates Halloween anymore.
The last two years(2019) were bad enough; there were probably 5 or 6 kids my age at most, and the few others who turned out were little kids or small groups of middle schoolers.
Last year, I only saw
- one person my age
- 9-10 groups of trick-or-treaters at the most, having been out for 2-3 hours
- virtually no one older than me
- most of the people I saw were clueless fresh-off-the-boat immigrant parents, taking their toddlers out to what they assumed would've been a holiday people still celebrated
The hilarious irony of Halloween in 2019/2020 is that everyone stays inside, filling large bowls of candy because they think everyone else will be coming to their doorbell, and they are the edgy, UnIqUe minorities who haven't decided to go out.
What they fail to realize is that the stereotypes have flipped; trick-or-treaters are the minority, and the people who stay behind their doors make up the remaining 80% of the population.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION AND HAPPY READING
