I was going to write about something completely different, and way more deep, than what I am about to say, but this random thought popped into my mind today, so I have delayed the deeper blog until next week.
What is the point?
It's October 31st. People are coming to our door every so often. All over the world kids are walking along the streets, all dressed up, asking for lollies and other such stuff. Most people just hand it over.
The question remains: What is the point?
I just don't get it. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever for kids to be going around asking for lollies and junk food once every year. They expect it. People give it.
Why?
It's beyond me. Why do people just willingly go out and buy heaps of junk food year after year, to just hand out to random kids they've never met and probably won't ever meet again, just for the heck of it?
I don't quite understand it. I don't get it at all, actually.
Please, someone, enlighten me.
Sunday, 1 November 2009
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Honestly there isn't really much of a point to halloween other than that it is a time of wild behavior and a chance to live however the heck you want because tomorrow you have to be "holy," or at least that's how it started with hallows eve being the night before All Saints Day, a time when all the members of the catholic church were expected to act holy and honor the saints who have passed on. Much like Mardi Gras was originally the day before ash Wednesday, and so people would go out and act all wild in an attempt to get it out of their system before they had to act holy and participate in Lent. Today these practices, I don't aknowledge them as holidays, have not changed much. They're still nothing more than a chance to run wild and celebrate wicked things.
This may have been more of an explanation than you wanted, but there it is. At any rate at least you know a bit of the history behind halloween if you didn't already.
Stavie.
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