HALLOWEEN IS OVER, the little ghosts and goblins have gone home, shed their costumes, and set about eating as much of their candy goodies as they can before Mom takes it away. Now we return to normality, when Mom and all the rest of us adults parade about in OUR costumes, the ones that we wear every day in order to mask what we fear may be our personal reality sticking out. We may not be as profoundly unhinged as the mass murderer, the one about whom all his neighbors later say “he seemed like such a nice young man,” but we’re all doing our best to keep our worse impulses under wraps. If I’m a homicidal maniac, you couldn’t tell by looking at me. Or perhaps that attractive young lady who just cleaned my teeth last week went to a Flat Earther member meeting that evening, or a QAnon gathering to discuss the latest in cockamamie conspiracy theories. Back in 1955 (otherwise a good year) a novel came out titled ‘The Body Snatchers’ about aliens taking over human bodies. The book spawned several movies, where people weren’t actually people anymore but, rather, the bodies of former people now taken over by emotionless aliens bent on plundering the planet (sort of similar to contemporary Republican politicians). My point is that we all wear costumes to a certain degree while we go about our lives and our jobs, interacting with other people in their costumes, keeping up appearances, trying not to offend, working at keeping that secret person inside of us from snatching our body away and going frightenedly astray.
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