Why I Love the Rain

Since we’ve had a few summer warm days lately, I thought I would write about the rain. Though I have times where I tire of it, I love when it falls outside and those simple patters and patterns it makes on the window panes. The sound is peaceful and allows for a myriad of ideas to flow through my mind that may find their place in a poem or story. I often see the rain as refreshing the earth and the life all around me, and I find that it acts as a natural source for cleansing my mind.

Sometimes there’s a freedom to dancing in the rain, but I usually enjoy it most when I’m cozy inside with a good book. I feel as though the raindrops are a curtain that I can hide behind while I visit a fictional world and forget about real life for a little while. I find thunderstorms exciting, and I love to watch the lightening dance across the sky. It’s like my own private little light show, a painting unfolding across the night sky, complete with a rhythm. To me, these kinds of storms make for magical nights.

Even in my sadness, I take great comfort in the rain, and I love when bad moods happen to fall on rainy days. The grey sky is a companion for me when things just aren’t going my way. The steadier those drops fall the more I feel justified somehow to mope around. I wrap myself up in my loneliness and don’t let go until I feel ready. Mother Nature opens up the skies and unleashes her sympathy for my plight. Often when the rain has ceased, some small frustration within me has been set free.

I love the rain because it is gentle and unafraid of letting go. It chooses its own pace and dances as short or as long as it wants to. From the tears of the clouds, new flowers bloom, allowing the sweet green grass to grow and reach towards another sunny day.

On a rainy day, I can lie back for a few stolen moments of quiet reflection and lose myself in a song, store up some words and release a few should they beckon to me.  When the sun comes out, I am ready to embark upon new ventures with a ready and inspired mind...