Embrace your Halloween spirit
People set out jack-o-lanterns to fend off ghosts. Starbucks is selling their famous Pumpkin Spice Latte. It’s that time of year again– Halloween!
With Halloween comes candy, and with candy comes children. But how old can you be to celebrate Halloween before you get “too old?” Many people stop dressing up and going out to trick-or-treat by the time they are in their teens. While this is probably not without reason, it seems as though teenagers stop celebrating the Halloween spirit completely.
Halloween has always been a fun time for kids to dress up as someone they look up to, as well as to get candy. For teenagers, it should be a way to be free of stress for at least one night.
Part of the lack of spirit may be because of school. This year, Halloween is on a Tuesday, meaning it is sandwiched between two school days. Most ways of celebrating Halloween include candy and staying up late, but with the excessive amount of homework that school gives, students don’t have time to stay up late celebrating Halloween, they’re staying up late for a much less fun reason.
However, sometimes, students need a break; there’s only so much stress and homework a person can take. People should celebrate Halloween more. It’s right in the middle of the beginning of school and Thanksgiving break. The months in between the two are always very long, and Halloween is the perfect little break to relieve stress by hanging out with friends and binge eating sweet treats.
Even if you can’t do anything on the actual day of Halloween (since it’s on a Tuesday), you can always do Halloween-related things on the weekends before it, like going to a pumpkin patch or a haunted house with friends. Picking out the right pumpkin is not an easy task, but it will take your mind off of school, at least for a little while. Going to a haunted house is a great way to be able to scream loudly (possibly about your problems, possibly because you are scared, but who will know?) without getting weird looks.
And of course, you can always dress up for the actual Halloween day. It’s the perfect way to be goofy and express your artistic and creative talent, all while being able to scare people wherever you go (more than usual). If you are really crunched for time like most high schoolers, you can dress up as a bag of trash, or as salt and pepper if you want to pair up with someone else. Or, as my brother and his friends did sometime ago, all get horse masks and be a herd of horses, because why not?
You are never too old to celebrate Halloween. You may not have enough time to trick-or-treat, but other aspects of Halloween are not age-restrictive and can also relieve stress. From haunted houses, to pumpkin patches, to dressing up at school, there are so many options to embrace your Halloween spirit.
