But that's the thing with fear: reality often doesn't matter; it's all in the perception.

Halloween was the best holiday, in my opinion, because it was all about friends, monsters, and candy, rather than family and responsibility.

Death has gone from being a community event that bolstered unity and understanding to a quiet and hidden phenomenon, leaving us even more uncertain and afraid of mortality.

There, an engaging tour guide told jokes and made witty quips in between sensationalized and brutal stories of inmates "getting what they deserved" because, as she put it, "if you gonna act like an animal, you gonna get treated like one." (We know, thanks to Goffman and pretty much every behavior study out there, that it often works the other way around.)