Far from the expectations or murky politics of other national days of note, come Halloween, all you have to do is dress up and embrace getting ghouly with it.
One of the most valuable lessons I’ve learnt in life is that the key to happiness is low expectations.
Halloween is the rock star cousin of Australian holidays. Its historical roots have absolutely no ties to us. All of which makes it distinctly anarchistic, swift and expectation-free, with less contrived pressure to have fun. There’s also no pressure of present giving. It also officially marks the opening of the Australian summer, which is, as anyone will tell you, the national social and party season. We emerge from our wintry hibernation as pallid ghouls, party for one last time as pale and hollow-eyed ghostly figures, just as the jacarandas start to bloom, and the sun really begins to shine.Halloween’s evolution – from religious to secular; from scary to broader themed fancy dress – has elevated it to my favourite holiday of the year.
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