Wednesday, October 31, 2007

New Costume

Happy Halloween!

What is it about this holiday? Do we love being scared or is it just the candy? Is it the kids being cute in their costumes? Or is it the costumes we adults get to wear? Hey, maybe that's it....

A chance to pretend that we're someone else. Who doesn't like to do that? We don't get a chance to do that very often.... become a different person. To have others regard us with a sense of awe and mystery. Mundane becomes terrifying, blah becomes sexy.

No costume for me today. Okay, so I'm wearing my new zombie tee shirt. It was a gift from a friend that knows me well. But no REAL costume. Becoming a different person is something I try and practice everyday now. Being a better person. It's not terrifying, it's not sexy, it's just me.

The kids in my neighborhood will ask me why I didn't dress up as I hand out candy this year.
" You're not scary like you used to be."

You got that right, kids, you got that right.

2 comments:

Naughti Biscotti said...

This may very well be the best post I have ever read. "You're not as scary as you used to be"...

Damn Mickey! That is really great writing.

Mikey said...

SHANDI: Thanks for the kind words and thanks for reading. I will try to write much more goodly in the future.... ;)