Rainy Days

Days have been rainy, cloudy and breezy. I must say it is one of those days that I always feel my life has been lifted up. This weather is just a nature that fills our lives with adventure, and certainly not to mention the fact that it touches our emotion...and literally transform our live.

Have you ever thought of how wonderful it is to be dripped upon by the rain? Take a minute to feel it; close your eyes, breathe slowly and gently, feel that air moving around your cheeks, it feels cold and light, and slowly a droplet of rain landed on the tip of your nose...it feels cold, and just water?

Doesn't that tell you how simple it is? You must thinking it is just rain and water, and certainly what is the big deal about it. To me, personally, it is just more that a droplet of rain, or water that falls from the sky. What it matters here is how it touches my soul and life.

I always feel energetic during rainy day, I love it, and I can't help the fact that it makes me feel so alive and full of pleasure. It is just so wonderful! Water, the main source of all lives, that grows all living things and washes away anything that comes in its way. Isn't water is beautiful? You're still puzzle, I know.

Water is pure, plain, simple and refreshing. We use water for our needs, everyday and every time. When we are dirty or feeling hot, we take a bath. When we're thirsty, we take a drink. And, when we are sinned, it washes away. Water, the simplicity of all that walks in this world, yet it is the peace of element that lies in us.

During a rainy day I, sometimes, would stand underneath it, and spread my arms welcoming million of droplets of rain onto me. It feels like I am accepting nature into my body, and let it be part of me. It makes me feel so wonderful that the rain washes away everything in me, and takes me to a new beginning. Every single little droplet lies onto me and slowly go right downward out of my body; it takes my past away with it, it takes all the sadness and sorrow away, and it cleans all the sins I have where it makes me feel brand new - a whole new person that feels wonderful knowing that I have lived another day to see another.

Life comes in very interesting ways; certain time up and down, as the cycle of life represents it all in our own reflection of our living cycle. When our lives are up, we cherish it with happiness, smile, laughter and joy, then it tosses with a drink of gratitude. Yet, when we are down we overcome our sorrow with tears in sadness, and drinks that make us to forget the pain in hope of joy. Hence, with a simple touch of water it takes our soul to a brand new beginning of every chapter in life.

And, there are times that we feel so lost; totally lost of direction, and life feels like it is filled with darkness. It feels lonely that we don't know where to turn and what we're doing - total lost of sense of life. It feels just like a lost voyage that is hopeless in search of no man's land, not knowing what its destiny is. Yet, a voyage that floats on water, and when storm comes it is covered with rain of water that shower over it.

Isn't it obvious that life is sometimes directed? Yet, we are just too blinded by ourselves to see what is good and bad around us. The ocean is huge and beneath it there is a current; an ocean current it is that circulates the life of the ocean. And yet, this is a guided key by nature itself where as a ship floats on it can be flowed into its ocean current direction naturally.

Sometimes, we just gotta stop and take a moment to think what we are doing. Stop thinking whether it is right or wrong, and what or how it can be resolved. We just need a moment of silence, feel that nature surrounding us, take time to feel it because it is right there to take you into a direction that is unseen, yet can be felt. Let your life flows like a river of water, because eventually water will find its way through the river into the ocean - an ocean of freedom and love.

Life and rain have their sharing of common representation - where it hits us in our life - yet we avoid it to think that it is part of us, because we're blinded by selfishness and desire. Life is simple and certainly blessed with joy and love - yet it is just another step to be taken by accepting what is within us. Let that rains come onto you, it does no harm for it is nature that is reaching our souls. Have no fear in life, let it comes as it is because tomorrow is a mystery - a mystery to be lived and rediscovered - and rainy days just couldn't get any better in fulfilling the wonders of life.

By Jacques Yvez