Scientifically, we’ve been taught that rain is just evaporated water condensed over time and coming back into the Earth in the form of clouds. But is that all it is? Not to me.
No, I’m not challenging the science, if I do that I shall be ridiculed out of this society by my 5th standard science teacher. I am just saying rains are so much more than what they seem to be on the surface. I sometimes draw many parallels to things we go through from time to time.
Nature doesn’t speak our language, so at times I try to put words for her to understand what she goes through. Of course, I could and in all likelihood would be wrong but interpretations are always subject to market risk.
I see rain as a form of rebirth in our lives, as nature’s way of letting off steam, as a part of the yin and yang that envelopes all our lives, but beyond all that it is life itself.
I fall into the category of people who like getting drenched in the rain. Always have, always will. It makes me feel closer and more attached to the ground I live and breathe in. It gives it life, quite literally. Being a cyclical process, the opposite works too. You are free to assume what the two ‘it’s’ are.
Everything has to come to an end after a while, it was perhaps the purpose of why it started in the first place, or rather that is perhaps the only thing that is certain in any life. It is a part of life, not the opposite. As such, as the water evaporates it has fulfilled its purpose of being on the ground, moves on to the next life in the clouds and when it has fulfilled that purpose there, it is reborn again into the ground. The cycle repeats. Wouldn’t that be how we have lived thus far during this entire duration of mankind, albeit in different forms…?
We cope with things in different ways but inherently the idea is the same. It is applicable to anything and everything and we let it out. Rain is perhaps just like that too for nature. We magically feel better afterwards like it has dissipated along with it. Same applies here but only difference is one is a necessity for survival and forms the basis of life itself.
I am also an advocate for balance in life and I find it oddly satisfying when things are symmetrically equal or both sides have been equally fulfilled. The sun shines through, the rain must fall then. Yin and Yang. Two sides of a coin. There is balance after all.
I listen to the rhythms of the rain, how it pulsates, the short silence before the impending fall, accentuated by the tell tale sounds of the clouds moving in from afar, the fall itself and how it ends. It is all very musical and sounds like a big symphonic orchestra piece in action. Perhaps this is where we got the idea of an orchestra too…
All of these are just observations from a fairly observational mind. After all, these are worded interpretations of such observations. And interpretations are always subject to market risk. Read all sides carefully before taking a decision.