Fall in Love with Rain

These days I started loving rainy days. It seems like shower of blessings we are receiving from the above. There was a time this rain gave me lots of suffering: I could not sleep peacefully at night because if rain comes my books would be spoiled by water and dust of thatch because we lived in a thatched house then, I could not use a dress twice because I had to pass few kilometres mud road from my house to school, my leather shoes could not last more than six months because of mud road and paddy field and drains that needed to pass to reach to school or local market, there was very wet and humid condition inside five members small room. There was no electricity; rain meant more consumption of lantern. Those days there were more frequent rain than now, there was afternoon shower almost daily basis that now getting rare in Tripura.

But still there was something special in rain and in rainy season. The mind got inspired with unknown possibilities, I could study better in rainy season-because it was moderate temperature during rain and I could not go to outside-but whatever may be the reason-qualitatively rainy season was more fruitful in study that I felt.

I always enjoy wetting in rain, walking in the rain. During training at North Eastern Police Academy Shillong, the best part I felt running 10 km in the rain at every Saturdays morning during monsoon. It was as if I could grasp the rain as much and as long as I wanted...coincidentally for about three months it was almost all Saturday morning there was rain!

Now condition has improved. I could not go outside frequently. But whenever I go, a car is always there-I don’t have to wait for vehicle in the rain, storm or hot summer mostly. Thus there is no reason to not to love rain now. May be this is the reason I am falling in love with rain with greater intensity. But again it’s not permanent-‘Mausam ki tarha tum badal to na jaoge’, need a permanent, someone or something to love in life that I yet to find.