Costumes

Even if you weren’t ever huge on Halloween, most kids (at least the ones with a healthy childhood) liked to make believe and dress up, scare each other and role play, whether it was cops and robbers, cowboys and indians, house, monster or whatever else.

This is of course only a small part of Halloween. For us big kids it may be just an excuse to dress up in costumes (and Halloween contact lens if you really want to go all out) and ultimately get drunk, or to do something special with our significant other, but for me it still has something special, may be due to the nostalgia of it, and maybe I never really grew up and never want to.

Dressing up in costumes can be a great escape sometimes… which is at the deepest core of what most people seem to be trying to do, escape being human and be something more, something special. To a certain extent we all wear costumes everyday of our lives, a different kind of costume than what we wear on Halloween.

Society seems to get colder, more distant and more insecure. Our American society is so driven on the image that most people feel cornered into hiding in a costume. We seem to be mindful of our surroundings at all time filtering what would or wouldn’t be good or bad for our image, we may choose carefully what we laugh at, agree with, disagree with, like or dislike based on the consequences regardless of how we ACTUALLY feel, we seem to be more concerned with what our peers think of us than what we think of ourselves.

So in effect the more we try and escape who we really are the more we suffocate ourselves with layers of costume until eventually we can’t escape the costume. I’m no different, I have layers that I’m always trying to shake so that I can enjoy life in the real reality that we live in so that when I put on it costume, it’s not figurative, it’s in good fun.

On a much lighter note;

Checkout and Browse Halloween Costumes for Fun

…I tend to find myself checking out the naughty witches. Speaking of witch (pun intended) I highly recommend checking out: Sexy Witch Blog