Rainy Days

It's the sixth consecutive day it's been raining here.

Nobody likes a rainy weather. Kids hate it because they can't go out. Adults hate it because those noisy monster seed of theirs are always in the house all the time. Not only that, the adults also have to ferry them anywhere and everywhere they needed to be: school, tuition classes, piano lessons, the clinic, the hospital, the emergency room, etc.

I know, kids are such a pain in the ass, aren't they?

Anyway, let's forget about them kids. As the title has it, this is not about those evil monsters. It’s about rain.

How many of you out there actually did take the time to appreciate the rain? I've always love the rain. Especially those drizzly ones... you know, those not enough to get you all wet but they’re there. Just keep falling from the sky.

When I was a kid, I always play in the rain. And of course, I get sick the day after. But it was damn well worth it! Don't believe me? Ask my cousin Irene about the time her, her brother, my brother and me, all got sick on the same day. Our parents are completely baffled by it. We were in the house the whole time. According to the doctor "(maybe) it's the flu virus". Well, maybe we sneaked out through the back door while our parents didn’t notice, played in the rain, and all got sick at the same time?

Present Day.

I still walk under the rain, and I still love rainy days. But the feeling is now completely different. When I was a kid, all I can think of is: "I wanna play in the rain." But when now, all I can think of is: "I want someone to play with in the rain."

Okay... not exactly "play with". When I walk under the rain now, I thought to myself: "how great it would be to have someone share this moment with me". Sometimes, I thought: "wouldn't it be nice if some stranger walks up and offer to share an umbrella?" It is small moments like this when you actually get to see the kindness of strangers, don't you think?

While most people do most of their "profound thinking" while taking a crap in the toilet, I prefer the rain, or even a night on the beach under the moon… okay fine, I'm a sucker for things like this. So sue me.

Tonight, as I look out from the balcony of my apartment building, I see how beautiful the raining night sky is. Lights from a nearby hotel make the drizzling rain look like thick mist. The night lights from the Singapore industrial area looking exceptionally beautiful tonight. It's another beautiful, cold, rainy night.

A Jessism © 11012006 (Originally posted on Fridae)