Halloween and Valentine’s Day seem like parallel opposite holidays (both involve candy and fear), and since I’ve been high-key obsessed with Wooden Overcoats, here’s a box of Antigone’s Memento Mori chocolates from season 2, episode 4, “The Sweet, Sweet Taste of Death.”
Okay listen, I love fall and Halloween and Samhain, but it frustrates me that I still tend to move on from it more quickly than I think I should.
Is anyone else with me? Like, I start fall decorating/excitment mid-August and then switch to Halloween/Samhain mid-September bc I am so damn excited for it. But I have been finding that I lose the excitement before the end of October even (I know! The sacrilege!). My mind already starts wandering to Yule/Christmas and planning for that and excitement for the winter season.
So I am torn on how to change this for next year. Do I limit myself and not let myself put up decorations and do Halloween stuff before October next year? Have I been starting too early and that is what is making me lose interest by October 31st?
Or do I just need to accept that it is the natural way of things, we typically start looking forward to the next season/celebration while the current one is going on? Or is that just me :(
All I know is that the pull has been so strong lately to look at winter aesthetic pictures online, plan my Christmas cards and do some holiday shopping (just a little!!!!) and plan some homemade Yule decorations…..*big sigh*
I don’t know why I tend to spend more time looking forward to and anticipating the next season, than I do appreciating the current one. Thoughts?
