I take Halloween pretty seriously. It's the only holiday I celebrate in a "spiritual" sense, though I'm not spiritual at all. No ghosts, no god (with a little g) in nature, no nothing. But Halloween is a good time to celebrate the changing of the seasons. The submission to the dark as the day gets shorter and the night grows.
- This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.
Anyway, I don't dress up. Maybe I'm just lazy, but what's the point? You don't need a costume to get blind fuck drunk and you won't be getting any candy from strangers.
