Facing Our Fears
So, today’s Halloween.
You’re probably trying to figure out what you costume you’ll wear to a party tonight, and, by the way, have you stocked up on candy?
(I’ve been joking that instead of candy, this year I’ll be giving out toothbrushes. Hey, I’m all about what’s good for kids, even though I don’t have any.)
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post about the spirit of fun that Halloween injects into our daily lives. I hadn’t actually experienced this festival until I moved to the US; we have so many festivals in India, replete with gods and demons (which my family enthusiastically participated in despite being a fervently Christian one), that Halloween – at least, at the time – was given short shrift.
Having now lived in the US for more than a decade, I still see that spirit of fun whenever Halloween comes around. Heaven knows we have more than our share of worries to deal with every other day of the year; why not be a kid for a day and throw caution to the winds?
More than that, though, I’ve come to see that, with all its ghouls and ghoulies, beasts and besties, Halloween gives us a chance to face our fears.
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