Okay, so I was thinking about Halloween. My last one was a disappointment. Most our decorations were sold off so I just had 2 skull tiki torches and a small skull that produces fog. (And rob zombie blasting XD) And then my costume from many years ago. Allot of people simply gave us a weird look and kept going, even know the child WANTED to go to our door.
BUT then I started thinking about my older Halloweens from 5 or so years ago. Back then, our house was LOADS more scary. It had tomb stones, skeleton spiders, skeletons coming out of coffins, cloaked skeletons hanging from the tree/side of our house, spider webs on the sides of the door with my dad hiding behind one, my mom dancing in the window with a costume and a black light where you can ONLY see her mask, and certain costume parts on the arms. And my favorite, the fog machine. Our yard will fill with fog almost instantly, leaving me in costume to move around in the fog as they see shadows and I can sneak up on them :D :D :D :D etc etc etc. (I once scared someone so bad that they nearly knocked over the tiki torch and they ran across the street o.o) But there was no parent preventing their child from coming to the door. AT MOST when I played dead in the yard and get up, they'll look at me and be like "Please don't" But the way they said it wasn't "Don't or else i'll be angry" It was "I won't blame ya if you do it... But please, don't." And since I was nice, I was like "Uggggg... Alright alright, Plenty of people will show up anyway -.- (Lots of people went trick or treating specifically for our house, it was nice back then ^^)
So what's my point? Well 4 or so years ago is when I say the beginning of people started being insulted over everything started. (Some may know it as pussification of america) People loved our Halloween house, even people who didn't want to be scared came to it and just gave us the asking look to not scare their child. However, now parents literally yanked their kids away from my house which is barely a shadow of its former glory, pulled them away as it was "Too scary" And the kids act shows too, my costume scared each and every one of them to the point of paralysis. 5 years ago, kids didn't get paralyzed, yeah they jumped back and screamed, but then they were like "NEXT YEAR I WON'T BE SCARED! JUST YOU WAIT!" And i'm like "That's the spirit! Can't wait till next year then >:D" (My parents loved that girl XD Each year she'd try not to get scared, but we always added something new to the yard which will get her. T'was cute. It just boggles my mind how the world went from "I'll be stronger next year!" To people not even wanting to try and overcome things in a mere 4 or so years. Did me not doing Halloween have a ripple effect that traveled the US? Because oddly enough, it all started the moment my mom left my dad and we quit doing Halloween (I doubt it XP Or at least I hope not o.o)
They say that people who have a shit ton of talk generally can't back it up. I wonder if with how big kids mouths have gotten has something to do with their parents shielding them from anything slightly bad/scary/whatever and... Well not being a parent XP People seem to have forgotten that kids need to grow. If you shield them, they're not growing in that aspect of life because there is nothing to grow from.