Halloween: a holiday notoriously known for its fun times, funny costumes, hanging out with friends, and most of all, going trick or treating. Although the oh so famous phrase  “trick or treat” has lost its whole meaning (that if candy is not provided, there will be consequences), it is still a social norm to hand out the best candy in the neighborhood.

So picture this: the clock strikes seven and you’re ready for anybody to appear on your doorstep for some treats. You stand at your porch waiting for a flood of trick or treaters to come near. As soon as you walk outside, kids from your neighborhood, the next neighborhood, and two neighborhoods over all swarm the house, begging for candy to the point where you completely run out. You’re forced to turn the kids away, promising to come out in two hours with more candy, so everyone stakes out of the house until you arrive with more treats.

Oh wait, except that’s not how it goes at all; the plan is set, the stockpile of candy is ready. After a total of five visits to your door, it’s already ten o’clock and all the kids have returned home. So now, you’re stuck with an arsenal of sweets all to yourself, which isn’t the healthiest of all foods.

But where have all the trick or treaters gone? Surely they must have just forgot about Halloween, or maybe they were too busy tending to personal business to go out.

Sadly, that is not the case. The sad truth is that, people just don’t care about it anymore. Once you reach age 12, it’s not considered “cool” to dress up in a costume and ask for candy. If we’re talking about high schoolers, they’re too busy dressing up as angels, devils, cats, and things of that sort at Halloween costume parties to go get some candy. The sad truth is that it’s just not a priority anymore.

But what about the parents? Won’t they have a say in Halloween this year?

Unfortunately, this year, Halloween just so happens to fall on the night of game six of the World Series, in which the Houston Astros are taking a shot at winning their first ever World Series victory. The kids were trick or treating, at least a little bit, but as soon as 7:20 pm hits, it’s time to call it a day to get home to see history being made, and it completely drains the feel of Halloween from the spirits of all of our hearts.

At the end of the day, Halloween is over and now all of the focus is over to Christmas. However, the spirit of Halloween has died out a long time before the holiday even began.