Rainy Days Are Here Again

By Tasha Perera
Edited by Priyanka V
Date Published: 10 Nov 2006
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Unexpected showers, muddy roads and of course the gloomy days, sound familiar? Ah yes, it’s the rainy season yet again. I for one love a gloomy rainy day, it gives me an excuse to get under the blankets and sleep all day long. However, to some, a rainy day can mean so much more.

Rain has always tagged along with the more somber emotions. Like rain, tears can be stormy or just a light sprinkle, and feel angry, cold, dreary and sad, or even come through the sunshine. Rain often follows a change of weather pressure, and tears can be the result of release of inner tension. People frequently cry from relief that they’ve been heard or that they can see a solution where there appeared to be a problem.

Rain first carries with it the dust suspended in the air, and then washes everything clean as it continues. Emotional rain, too, can first be painful, and then begin to bring release and clarity. A “good cry” like a heavy downpour is one that really lets go of the held feelings and continues until relief sets in. Rain does not always bring sadness, as the saying goes, every cloud has its silver lining, rain too has its more cheerful side. Peacocks unfurl all their feathers in delight due to the onset of rain.

Rain has also been associated with “love in the rain”, for those of you who have watched any Bollywood movie, its not surprising for the main actors to break out in song and dance expressing their love in the rain. In fact, rain also marks the beginning of the mating season for animals.

Human attributes, we are taught, include five senses: sight, sound, taste, touch and smell. Only in science fiction do we read about a sixth sense, which is usually depicted as a psychic sense. If you think about it, however, your emotions are your real “sixth sense.” Just like your other five senses, your emotions register data about the external world. With your sight, your eyes take in data about colors, shapes and relative sizes of the things in the world around us. Touch tells us how things feel, how warm, cold, soft, hard, sharp or smooth they are. Similarly, your emotions tell you what others’ feelings are. We can sense, in an almost psychic way, how someone feels at a distance, without being told. So the next time it starts to pour, look around you and try figure out what your neighbours are feeling.

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