I want to think light and fun on this rainy day. You, too? A rainy day is a calm day unless one’s schedule is on overload. A rainy day is a slower day because accidents happen more easily if we don’t make it a slower day. Have you ever slipped and fallen on a rainy day because you were in a hurry to get somewhere? That’s always a tap on the shoulder to not rush. Judging from the look of all those clouds, it seems they’ll be no sun shining on us today, unless we’re heading for a beautiful island with sunny weather. And, so, here we are with a no-sun kind of day. We have to appeciate these days because summer is peeking around the corner, and usually that means we’ll be complaining of hot and humid because hot and humid is hard to take.
Well, not always. We can do hot and humid by by a beautiful body of water, bare feet in sand, sipping a cool refreshing drink – the biggest decision to make is whether to go for a swim before or after lunch, oh, and another, what to have for lunch. That’s not hard to take.
Ah, but we want to keep our energy in the present moment, so back to our rainy day; it’s puddles for us today. That beautiful body of water is for another time. Actually I’ve been noticing lately that people are not timid about the rain as much as they used to be. I don’t know how that came about, but people seem more willing to walk a few blocks in the rain, without an umbrella, not caring whether they get wet. It’s nice to have that attitude, that sense of freedom. Then the rain becomes fun and we get to be like children. Children love the rain. They look for puddles to jump in never caring whether feet get wet, clothes get splashed on, mud sticks to pants. Children think fun, and rain is fun. Have you ever heard a child complain about rain? They’re not the ones who remember to bring an umbrella. They don’t want anything hampering their fun. Children stay in the present moment. We’ll watch them and learn.
Okay, I get it, we’ll be like children; we’ll see the rain as freeing and fun. We’ll do rain. Yeah!