Halloween

"Spooky season" has never been my thing. I grew up in a conservative, Christian home with parents that said Halloween was the Devil's holiday. I've never gone trick-or-treating, I've dressed up maybe two or three times in my 20 years, I don't watch scary movies or go to haunted houses; the list could go on of ways that I don't participate in Halloween. Every October 31 passes like any other day for me.

Yeah, growing up in the house I did, it makes sense, but I have countless friends who grew up the same way and wished they had gone trick-or-treating. I've never had the desire. Maybe it was my social anxiety not wanting to knock on countless strangers' doors or maybe it was because I didn't fancy being out in the cold for a few hours unable to wear a coat because it would "ruin" my costume. Either way, I didn't care. I watched kids walk around my neighborhood and was perfectly content in my living room. I wasn't drawn to the allure of the so-called "spooky season."

This year, I went to my first ever Halloween party. I'll be honest, I had no desire to go. I don't care about Halloween, but Eden and I had made plans to go, so I was going. I have an Eeyore onesie that I was going to wear as my costume because I was not about to put time, money or energy into making a costume for something I didn't even really want to go to. Then Eden asked if I just wanted to go without dressing up and I couldn't have been happier.

Shoutout to Adrianna for taking the pics and hanging out with us in a corner because none of us wanted to interact with anyone else.

Honestly, the party was pretty boring. Granted, we were only there for the first 45 minutes and there was almost no one there. People finally were showing up and they were starting games when we were walking out the door. But seriously, it was pretty awkward. I think Eden said it best, "Imagine a bunch of socially anxious people trying to interact with one another." Yeah, it was that awkward. Not that either of us has any room to talk. We sat in the corner taking pictures and talking to no one else. It's honestly pretty comical if you ask me.

So, I went to my first Halloween party hosted by IWU AIGA and sat in a corner with about the only person I knew and left after 45 minutes. Does that really even count as going to a Halloween party? Probably not, but it's probably as close as I'll ever get. Am I ashamed of that? Nope. Honestly, I couldn't care less.