Waxing Philosophical About Halloween
I've been trying to think of something thought provoking to discuss for Philosophical Phriday. (Yes, i just made that up; what do you think?) I often wax philosophical in my head about lots of things, but i don't always remember what they were ten minutes later. Here's a subject that has had a lot of time in my head lately, so i'll share it with you, and you can tell me what you think. If you wish. I was raised in a household where we didn't celebrate anything just because everyone else did. And if we happened to celebrate something everyone else did, we very likely didn't celebrate it the same way everyone else did. I learned about the origin of every holiday - and about its modern day changes, etc. For example, we celebrated Easter, but at my house it was called Resurrection Day. We also didn't hunt easter eggs or believe in easter bunnies or any of that. We did have a nice dinner and spend the day more in an atmosphere of thankfulness ...