Halloween is a time of sugar and freight, lit up by the moonlight, whilst people and spirits frolic at night. But has there come an age to stop, to fill the candy bags to the top? There certainly is a time when you put an end to all the jazz. When you leave your childhood life behind, you must also leave trick or treating for the next generation to find.
Once you have left high school you are now an official adult, your time for free handouts like tricks and treats is over. It is understandable to want to continue to go out every Halloween and say the line everyone is so familiar with but at some point, at some age: “trick or treat” is something not meant for adults but now as an adult many more doors are open.
I am sure as we can remember our first and last Halloweens fondly in the streets asking for candy among hundreds of other kids like you in costumes, but nowadays when you look around at the people out trick or treating, it’s still mainly little kids. To be the only adult out collecting candy could be off-putting to others and it’d make you feel very stand out-ish. There is a reason you only ever see adults either at the door passing out candies or walking with their kids, it is because trick or treating is an activity for younger children and it is the job of adults to let the new wave of kids experience what newly turned adults once had when they were a kid.
As a teenager myself, I still like going out door to door and getting candy, but I would hardly say that is the best part of Halloween as it is a time to be with others close to you. While your time for trick or treating is over, that is not to say you cannot live up to your Halloween spirit as now as an adult you can be independent from your parents and go out to parties or even just a small spooky get together with a group of friends.
Trick or treating can be seen as a very adventurous time for a kid as you get to travel across your neighborhood or even get to go to different neighborhoods of your own, but now all grown up the range of where you live in is much farther so why would you walk the streets when you could go from event to event.
Dressing up is still on the table but now, not walking around, it would be more practical, and you can wear even more outrageous costumes. Not to mention going from small handout candies to candies you get yourself with others that are exactly what you want and even baked goods you would not dream of being given from a random house.
You can never be too old to get into the spirit of Halloween, but trick or treating is something to leave to the kids, to participate in handing out candy to the next generation as an adult.
