I’m all for fall, it’s a fabulous season. Leaves changing color, scarves and boots get to come out again and, of course, pumpkin everything. There’s just one thing I see as a downfall, Halloween. The dreaded day where insane acts are suddenly considered the norm for a full twenty-four hours. Halloween, a time where everyone dresses up, gives themselves temporary heart attacks and overload on sugar. Great right?

See, I’ve never understood the appeal to this holiday. When I was little, of course I dressed up and went trick or treating, but I only because everyone else did it. However, as I grew older, I saw the insanity of this holiday.

It’s absurd, we expect strangers to give us candy simply because it’s Oct. 31, we really have no other reason.

We dress up why exactly?

We go to ‘haunted’ houses and scream at the top of lungs because?

Everyone just throws the word “spooky” around way too often and attempt to make puns with the word "boo" a lot.

Candy corn is seen in every store ever and honestly, what even is candy corn?

You can't go shopping without encountering some sort of creepy decoration or display that moves when it shouldn't be able to.

Everyone gets excited to carve pumpkins, looks up great ideas for it on Pinterest and then it turns out looking something like this

I know there’s a valid history for why the holiday exists and I’m not discrediting that. All I’m saying is what we turned this holiday into is silly and I will never understand the hype behind it.