The spirit of Halloween exists within its participants. Halloween is the most frightening, unnerving, spine-chilling time of year that brings a unique vibe to the air of October. Trick-or-treating plays a vital role in keeping the spirit of Halloween alive. A business cannot function properly without all branches doing their part to provide for the company, just like Halloween. Without all the parts working together, the decorations, scary movies, trick-or-treating, the spirit begins to fade, and with each passing year, Halloween becomes just another holiday. 

This year for Halloween, both trick-or-treaters and those who passed out candy noticed a lack of trick or treaters. Was there ever an age cutoff for trick-or-treating? Well, of course, a thirty-year-old trick-or-treating without a child with you would be odd. But students at State High are teens. Teens are just larger kids; kids still trick-or-treat. 

“Of course teens should trick-or-treat. We’re so young and spry, and we just gotta get out there and show some Halloween spirit, you know? Trick-or-treat, bring all your friends, have a party, do all the Halloween stuff,” junior MJ Stockdale said.

Being a teenager is a lot of unnecessary worrying. Worrying about what to wear to school, being perceived, and trying to be social. Some teenagers might not want to wear a costume and participate in Halloween itself because it could be seen as a childish thing. But teenagers are just larger kids; still young and should still enjoy being young.

“Trick-or-treating is a fun way to enjoy childhood nature and to have fun on Halloween night,” junior Andy Liu said.

The fact that some teenagers don’t trick-or-treat is saddening because most of the teenagers who didn’t trick-or-treat this year trick-or-treated a lot when they were young and probably enjoyed it quite a bit. I mean, what kid doesn’t love free candy? It’s devastating that high schoolers don’t bother with any of the fun things like trick-or-treating because they think it’s for kids, even though, as previously stated, teenagers are still kids.

If more teenagers were to get hype for Halloween, that would bring additional trick-or-treaters and more Halloween spirit back to October. Not every teenager must trick-or-treat, of course, but some teenagers worry too much about being childish, so they deprive themselves of the fun they deserve to be having.