Where will you be this Halloween?
Trick or Treat? These are the three words I usually hear in the American films and TV shows I’ve watched during Halloween but I never got to experience the tradition when I was a kid.
In the Philippines,
Halloween is not part of our tradition, it just precedes All Souls Day
and All Saints Day, which is a public holiday for us. However, partly because
of western influence, Filipinos in the urban areas adapted the tradition and
celebrated it. It was in the 90’s when I first saw children trick-or-treating
in one of the affluent villages here in the city. They were all walking with
their Yaya’s (house help) in tow, carrying their loot bags and went from house
to house, I was so amazed with their costumes that it brings back the child in
me that wanted to go trick-or-treating. That was decades ago, now, due to some
entrepreneurial minds of some people, Halloween has become an annual event for
most big commercial establishments here. Before, only candles and Christmas
trees are on display by October in time for the All Saint’s Day and Christmas
Day celebration, but now, Halloween costumes, pumpkin baskets, treat, takes the
center stage by this time of the year. They also hold trick or treat for kids
during the last weekend of the month. Just last Sunday, I was at the mall and I
saw kids with their parents, dressed in Halloween costumes with pumpkin plastic
baskets on their hand, went trick-or-treating from one store to another. Some
of the mall employees were also in costumes that are very scary, that some kids
run away from them. Even some bars and restaurants have their annual Halloween
costume party.
Since I’m no longer a yuppie or a kid, come October 31, I will
spend my day in the cemetery. I’ll be visiting my brother’s grave, who died from
an illness, last August of this year. There
will be no trick-or-treating, but candles and prayers, I just hope that Freddy
Krueger doesn’t suddenly appear behind my back… just kidding!
Happy Halloween! o
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