I’ve
always had mixed feelings towards Halloween. It is a simply terrifying time of
the year but, if you push through the fear, you get candy. Really? It’s a
twisted mind game but I always played along to get the goods. However, there is
one great moment from my childhood that I recall every year. I was 6 years old
and the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast had just been released. Oh, I
cannot tell you the countless hours I spent daydreaming of being Belle. I was
born to be her, I continuously told myself. All that wishing and hoping finally
paid off the day my mother took me shopping for a Halloween costume. I was on a
simple mission: find that yellow dress from the ballroom scene. From the moment
I walked in Walmart on that fateful day, it didn’t take too long to find it. I
was in heaven. It felt like pure bliss. I even remember purposely playing the
movie the night we bought the dress and running upstairs to change into my
costume when the scene appeared. Of course, the scene ended by the time my
mother did my hair to match the outfit but I was Belle. There was a rush of joy
that came over me; it felt so right. This all sounds a tad melo-dramatic but
you can’t expect anything less from a kid, now can you?
It
was one of the best Halloween’s I’ve ever had! Although, the fact that my
parents forced me to put a winter jacket underneath the costume was beyond
humiliating. Not exactly the slimming look a 6 year old aims for but I rocked
it nonetheless.
Hope everyone has a good Halloween this weekend! Be safe!
RIP diet
DD
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