Halloween is almost here. It seems like each holiday is just a constant reminder of how things used to be so different. Growing older certainly makes the holidays seem so different than the innocence they were surrounded with when we were younger. We didn't have to worry about the state of the economy, whether or not rights would or could be taken away from us, or if the next President would or would not be more of the same ideologies -- we just worried about how much candy we would be getting and how much of it we would be allowed to consume. Sometimes it's harder to know the difference as to whether it would have been better to be kept in the dark about these things or to have full (or as full as our own knowledge permits us to grasp) knowledge. I suppose at least now we have a more perception, the knowledge that, if we could, we could make things better ourselves instead of letting others take the reigns.