Halloween is the absolute best time of the year. It’s the first holiday of the season and the temperature is perfectly between hot and cold. But the most important part of Halloween — the aspect that truly makes the holiday so special — is the costumes.
As human beings, it is so important to value and show our differences. What makes us different is what makes us special. Dressing up for Halloween is the perfect time to show exactly who you are by choosing to be whatever you have always wanted to be.
What is so sacred about this tradition is the creativity and differences within our costume choices. This Halloweekend, at least at Fordham University, there seemed to be a lack of original costumes. The most popular were princesses, pop stars or some type of animal.
The reasoning behind the scarcity of creativity and effort can be debated. Some could say it’s due to student finances; many students seem to not have the ability or desire this year to spend their limited money on costumes, opting instead for a corset that they can reuse and cheap animal ears. Others may claim that the increasingly popular desire to look good trumps any potentially weird but creative ideas people may have for their costumes.
This is an issue within our society: our want to fit in and be appealing to our peers is flushing out our differences. This Halloween was one of the most boring I have experienced to date, and that was solely because of this issue. As aforementioned, the whole point of t.