Halloween is coming up. Will it provide more tricks or treats?
As with other holidays, Halloween might give us ample opportunities to drink large amounts of alcohol or use drugs. We’re not trying to preach to you here, especially since you’re probably an adult. It’s extremely difficult—if not impossible—to try to force adults to do something they don’t want to do. That is, unless you use force, and we’re certainly not advocating that. (What kind of blog would this be?)
But we do urge you to be careful. Be aware of your surroundings and the people around you. While you might be careful, others might not be. Other people might also look to take advantage of others, especially if their potential victims are in incapacitated states because of drugs or alcohol. Unfortunately, those people exist, and they don’t just pull their tricks on Halloween.
Halloween is also a time when we look to shed our old selves and don new identities, at least temporarily. Costumes, masks, wigs, and makeup all help us pretend to be someone or something else for a little while.
But just because we look different on the outside, we should still remember what makes us us and not abandon the behaviors that have kept us safe in the past. We might think that our new identities will allow us to behave totally differently, even recklessly, because we’re someone different.
But we have to remember that we really are the same people. We’re operating under the same rules as before. Even if we appear different, it’s only temporary. Our new identities will eventually end and we’ll have to face the consequences of what we did under those new identities.
Halloween is a fun time. It features costumes, parties, decorations, and candy. But for all these fun and cool things, we have to remember that Halloween also brings and ghouls and demonic behavior. Not literally, of course. But holidays, parties, and social occasions can create opportunities for excessive drinking and drug use, and we should remember the consequences of such activities.
