So this past weekend my family and I celebrate Dia de Los Muertos, Day of the Dead, it has been a Hispanic tradition in honoring the dead and the forgotten. It's actually a really beautiful tradition. Now my family has never actually full out celebrated this tradition but this past weekend we did. At La Villita, they had a two-day event for Dia de Los Muertos. Saturday, which was All Souls Day, they started at 10 am and had activities like poetry reading and music and altar presentation. Around nightfall they had the marionette skelton parade and dancing. It was so much fun, the most fun I had in weeks. I got to see what is was like to celebrate death, in the most nonsomber way. I got a view point on my hertiage. And we Hispanics have a lot of fun. People were dressed up with the signature Dia de Los Muertos makeup and masks. Families came and dressed up with their kids, even the pets were dressed up too. I thank my cousin Amaya for telling me about this and inviting me to go. Not only did I get a viewpoint on death but I got one on life. God only gave us one life to live and it must be the happiest life we live and that death is just a part of that happy life. In my mother's words, "Death is happy." And in my grandmother's words, "It's a good day to die."
P.S. I made a video about the event and will uploading it tomorrow. :)
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