This Is Halloween
It's Halloween in China, where I currently live, but only the foreign teachers here know to celebrate this wacky holiday. I personally LOVE Halloween. It is a day where people celebrate creativity and let go of their inhibitions for one night to dress up, have fun and willingly do that which usually terrifies them. Its also a day like other holidays where we give to others. Some of us spend our Halloween celebrating innocence and fun of young children by passing out sweets to the neighborhood or taking our own children out Trick-OR-Treating. Some of us spend the day trying to get as scared as possible. Others go out and celebrate with friends with a party. More and more I meet people who see no value to Halloween, just another useless holiday, but it is so much more than that. It’s the creativity of people trying to come up with the coolest costume or scariest decorated house. It's people putting aside their inhibition to look ridiculous, go do