Haloween

At Halloween I can sometimes feel my meanest “Halloween is a celebration of evil, and evil really exists. Halloween has become a celebration for impressionable kids ” and because of views like that, I tend to either ignore the door or open it and say something weak like ‘sorry I don’t do haloween’.

Is it mean to impressionable kids who don’t know what they are doing? Or is it an attempt to ensure that at least at my door they won’t associate that which I see as evil with a sweet? I know some people will send the children away with a sweet AND a leaflet or something else that explains the dangers of the occult, but is that overkill as well?

The joys of living in a world that has a different worldview to your own.

So another year of curtain twitching, to see just what gouls are there, of leaving genuine visitors on the doorstep as I can’t be bothered to answer the door to yet more trick or treaters, and of a strange sense of disquiet when I see kids dressed in this way.

Its not quite fear- and to the sceptic it would represent my childhood negative associations- but somehow a kid dressed as a witch or whatever else just doesnt feel right to me.