08/06/2018
1. Outside the Window: What's the weather outside your
window doing right now? If that's not inspiring, what's the weather like
somewhere you wish you could be?
When it Rains
It's been raining incessantly for the better part of the last hour. Now, as the force of the heavenly jets do recede, streetlights shimmer from behind the fluttering curtains of the mist. They glimmer like the pebbles under a mountain stream on a sunny day. It is almost funny, the way monsoon transports, for a few hours, the feverishly busy streets of a metropolis into the haven of human silence.
The splashy puddles in the cracks of the road, dust mingled with them, has not made its way into the list of the beauties of the Earth. But someone who has had the rare pleasure of knowing that their school would remain shut for the day because of the rains would not begrudge a little dirt round the corner of the alley!
The clouds still remain to show off a spark or two in the corners, and an enticing petrichor seems to take over your senses. When it rains through sunset the sky from the lovely grey assumes a reddish hue unlike any other. Even though the glow of sunset is absent, the heavens almost make up for it with the soothing, drizzling music of the raining droplets.
Then with leisure, the clouds recede making way for the depth of indigo that is, the star-studded ether. The cool breeze (a little on the wetter side) seems to bring to you quite some lost memories as you are inclined heavily towards spending a significant length of time reflecting on concepts and recollections from the past.
The stars sparkle (well, not so much these days you know, the pollution!) through (again!) a curtain of haze. They shimmer as the men beneath seem to simmer under the scorching heat that is humane. It is almost unbelievable what mankind could do to itself!
Oh, well I seem to have deviated from the topic at hand that is, rains. Well, contrary to what people might think, I'm actually allergic to the rain at most places and have to be content in watching the spectacle from beneath a dry roof (I hate it, for the records).
The best part about the rainy season has to be the fact that it comes after a long and scorching summer. And the fact, that it brings with itself an entire bunch of surprize treats (out here you never know!) sets it further apart (in a good way, of course!) from the other seasons. Also, I get to switch off the AC (strange but, yep)!
