Scooby Doo, Where are you?

Monsters.  The children of the night.  Godzilla.  Mothra.  Chupacabra.  Nessy.  How many monsters can you think of?  I could keep writing.  Monsters are fascinating. It's the season where monsters are enjoyed.  At least the movie ones or ancient superstitious ones. These are the ones we love and emulate with movies and costumes.    We use them to explain the reasons or causes of disasters or mysterious deaths/events.  We label mass killers monsters for we cannot understand the reason for killing so many innocents.  What else could they be but monsters?

Funny thing, I grew up watching Scooby Doo and never realized what the creators of the cartoon were teaching us.  See, Scooby, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, and Fred would chase and catch the monsters; then reveal to us that they were real people hiding in costumes.  It's actually something we really need to think about and share.  That's right share with our family, friends, and children.  Especially, our children.  There are so many monsters hiding under false masks, that we need to be aware and teach how to stay safe from them.
Yes, a cartoon taught us a great lesson...if only we realized it.  Thanks Scooby for teaching us.  Now let's go out and capture the monsters to teach our kids the reality of the children of the night.....and day.....