Halloween Time

So, Halloween is coming up, as a matter of fact it is next thursday, and all of my girlfriends and I are majorly stressing. As of right now, party plans have yet to be made that we are aware of. Therefore, none of us have gotten our costumes yet and we have no idea what we are going to do. We have heard of many different possible parties that may be happening, but nothing is certain. It is too late to order a costume online, and the costumes sold in stores are either stupid and ugly, or are only sold in the size XXL. Obviously, this is a major problem.

Sadly, we will have to dress up the old fashion way...

Yes, you can recall that I said sadly, because who wants to make their own costume from scratch when there are countless halloween costumes out there already put together with the most outstanding appeal?   After asking myself this question, I thought, why did it all of a sudden become a requirement that teenagers and children have to buy an already made costume? If you think about it, Halloween has become a materialistic, superficial holiday. I sometimes wish that Halloween could be the way it used to be not even a decade ago; a happy, fun, and stress-free experience where everyone made their own costumes, and people had competitions of who's was the best and most intricate,  not who's was the most expensive with the least amount of coverage.

When I was growing up, Halloween was a huge ordeal, but in a fun way. My sister and I would always  be so excited to pick out what we were going to be and help our mother sew and piece together the best costume ever. We shoved our faces with candy for weeks and spent the entire night on Halloween with our closest friends and family. Nowadays, it is still a huge ordeal, but in a stressful way. Teenagers stress about who will look the hottest and have the coolest outfit on at the parties. And, rather than shoving our faces with candy, girls starve themselves for the two weeks before the night of the party, hoping their hard work has paid off and they look the best in their skimpy costume.

It is saddening to think about how the essence of Halloween has changed in this way, but this change also characterizes how people are constantly conforming to society, and it exposes who can rise above, and who is dragged into the fiery depths of conformism.