Franklin may have been mistaken?

Now begins the season of fear....or, would it be more accurate to say now is when the season of fear becomes more pronounced and tangible and observable. We are a fearful lot. Houses and lawns are being decorated, signs are prevalent for Haunted attractions be it houses or fields or amusement parks, and kids are planning their costumes.

I have neighbors who totally rock the house decorations at Halloween to the point where when returning to my house I drive around to be spooked.  I can do so in the safety of my car and the good acceleration of my vehicle when the gas pedal is fully engaged.     

The neighbor kids are doing a preview of their costumes; thumbs up to the female vampire! 

I'm not a major fan of scary movies. Honestly, I never got over being in tenth grade and watching the film, HALLOWEEN; speaking of, exactly how many sequels of this are there??? What rattled me about the movie was that Michael Myers, the white mask wearing, knife wielding terror-inducer showed up even in the daytime! And, at the conclusion of the first movie when after having been shot multiple times and fallen twenty feet from a balcony ..... survived! The film ends and he's not there....hence, versions 2-5 of this film franchise.....

Why do we like to be frightened?  When I was in church youth group we had the grand idea to do a Haunted House within the basement of the church (!!??!).  How that approval was secured, I do not know.  One of the members of the congregation ran the local funeral home.  He secured for us a wooden casket.  I laid in it and as patrons of our fright fund-raiser approached, I at the opportune time would rise up, stare and reach out my arms. Screams ensued as did selective curse words.

It is that which we do not know that scares us.  In unsettled times, such as ours, we are on edge, scared and for added angst, quite angry.  During another time of uncertainty and anxiety, President Franklin D. Roosevelt told the country, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." I find myself repeating that line often. Perhaps we go to haunted fields, caves and forests to make tangible our anxiety and worries. Alas, what really troubles us remains and presents itself in very scary ways.....