Connecting to a Sense of Community

Unwritten rules imply that candy is the blood of Halloween.

Unwritten rules imply that adults cannot return to the act of Trick-or-Treating, yet adults can return to the product of Trick-or-Treating.

Those of us who eat sweets to find happiness once found comfort where sweets were present. 

People return to where they find happiness.

For some people, when we’re alone and down, sweets act as a connection to good times gone past when the world was innocently wondrous and full of amazing possibility.

Somehow and somewhere in our life, sweets were dropped in the middle of our happy moments.

Getting an ice cream sundae as a reward was less about an ice cream cone and all about being positively accepted and spending time with our parents. Ice cream was how our parents showed love.

But we interpret the ice cream as love, mistaking sweets for happiness.

Imagine that.

Imagine if your spouse gave you a box of candy instead of saying they loved you.

Imagine if your boss praised you for a job well done with free cookies at the office.

Imagine if you couldn’t make it to work for a week but you sent individually wrapped company manufactured candy to show that you value your job and will certainly be back.

Look back at the positive times where you associated sweets with a person (or people) in a positive way and realize it was not the sweets you shared that made you feel happy but rather the people with whom and situation in which you shared the sweets that made the moment.

How can we connect to our community sans-sweets? That is the question.

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