One of the most discussed topics on the news channel apart from Swine Flu is the weather. This past week or so, we have been getting rain showers for most of the day and the weather channels are doing a good job tracking the occurrences. I am not going to be mocking the weather guys of their bad predictions (like snow occurrences this past winter) in this blog. I will leave the honors for some latter time. At least for the moment they are doing their best based on whatever data they have.
Local area people are now pretty much done with the rains and want to see some sunshine, so they can move on with their outdoor activities. But me, I never am done with the rains. I grew up in Chennai (former Madras), India, which is on the East coast and my house there was five minutes walk from the beach (Bay of Bengal). Climate there is humid for most year, hotter during summer and of course there is no winter per say. But we do have monsoon rains. When the rainy season starts, it is refreshing when the warm rain drops touches the skin and is the most wanted season of the year.
During my school days, I used to walk to school up until fifth grade. My mom usually forced me to take an umbrella or raincoat (not Gogol’s raincoat) with me during the rainy days but I always ended up with drenched uniform and schoolbag. So my mom got me a bigger umbrella that gave a bigger coverage and I still ended up drenched. Little did she know (tujhe sab hai pata..haina ma) that I purposely don’t use the umbrella or raincoat on my walk back from school up until I reach the corner of my street. I love the raindrops or shower falling on my face, soaking me completely wet and then the wind blowing to make it even cool. I cannot explain in words as to what the feeling is… You have to experience it for yourself, like Natasha says “Feel the rain on your skin; No one else can feel it for you”. Later, I started using the bus for my school and college but during rainy days, I still got wet on my way to and from the bus stop, sat near the windows in the bus to get the mist on my face.
No matter where I am, when the rain falls, I would walk in the rain to feel it. When the first rain falls and wets the soil, the fragrance that comes as a result of it soothes your mind. This past week was bliss when it rained. For many, they needed the rain to wash down the pollen and to increase the ground water level for the season. For me being a gardening aficionado and a rain craze, I needed the rain so my plants and grass get water and I get my rain walk. I enjoyed walking along the trail near my house with a mist overhead and sometimes just overcast sky. Since it has been raining for almost a week now, people are getting tired of the rain and want to see some sun shine and have been praying for the rain to stop. Now the rains are gone. It is only a matter of time before these very same people will start doing their rain dances to call for more rain when the temperature hits 90+ degrees.
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