A Walk in the Rain...

RAIN !! The first thing that would come to my mind when I hear this word is Fun ! I dont know why ! A lot of people, associate this word with various things. But to me, Rain has always been FUN !! Be it the small pitter patter, to the roaring and pouring rain, I just love it !

When the teacher in school used to teach us, Rain Rain go away, I remember wondering why would they want to send away something, which is so much fun ! It is still afresh in my memories, the days in school, when two of my closest friends and I used to actually put our school bags on the perfectly ok bicycle and push it all the way home, just to get drenched to our souls in the rain. And we used to go home and lie, that the cycle was under repair. Rain, has also given me a cleansing effect at times ! When I see rain , or I play in it, I have this feeling like all my sorrows have been washed away ! Makes me feel lighter, better ! Which is why I enjoy the rain so much to say I LOVE it !!

But when I gave it a lot of thought, it dawned on me, that it could be because Rain is actually so related to our childhood..Even as adults when we play in the rain, our onlookers would probably tell us to stop acting like kids, right ? I remember reading this poem, again in school, that was named "Leisure". This poem asked us to take time sometimes to stop and smell the roses ! Which is true, isnt it ? How many of us, actually find the time to sit down for two minutes and actually enjoy things around us or even look around ourselves ? How many of us, take a walk, just for the sake of taking a walk and not going anywhere ? How many of us, even when we are travelling, in a car, or bus or bike, look out of the window and love just watching things, rather than be completely preoccupied with something else ? How many of us, spend time even listening to a song, not just for the heck of it, but to actually listen to it ?

I truly believe, or so you would have seen in my previous posts, that there's a kid inside us, who we are actually killing day after day. We blame people for our unhappiness, stress and we go to counsellers, psychiatrists and what not. But according to me, I think the solution lies inside each of us. If we could just spend time to stop and smell the roses, like the poem states, maybe we would solve a lot of problems.

Or maybe you should try the rain, like I do..If you dont have time to stop and smell the roses, you should probably take ..

A Walk in the Rain !