" Rain Hugged "

          The Story of How I Learnt to Enjoy the Rain

                                                                       I woke up in the morning to the sound of rain battering against the metal sheets laid over my home aquarium. Since the sound was too loud I could not sleep anymore. Lying awake in the bed I listened to the sound keenly. Soon it made me remember the drumming of the tribal people before a feast. It had a rhythm of its own and was playing its own orchestra. Gradually the sound lessened and the rain was barely drizzling and now there was no sound at all. So I got out of my bed and took the steaming hot coffee that was left on my dining table and took the newspaper along with it and sat close to the window near my aquarium pond. As I sat there enjoying the cup of coffee and reading the newspaper, the rain started to pour down again. Suddenly I looked at the aquarium pond where I saw the fishes in a hurybury moving around in the pond and it was like some sort of a dance and I have never seen such sort of a movement before. So I thought of taking a close look at them. I took out my umbrella and walked towards them hoping to enjoy their rain dance. But once they saw my reflection in the water, everything came to a halt and they scattered to different spots in the pond just like they were chased away by some sort of a predator. As I stood there, the down pour doubled and I felt like my umbrella was about to tear apart. As I thought of going inside my house, my umbrella slipped from my hand and the rain started to fall all over me and then I could see the fishes emerging back to the surface from their hiding spots and started to do the rain dance again. As I stood there I could feel the rain drops falling on me just like water bombs falling from the sky. Standing there I felt enormous joy and a tickling sensation in my heart. Though I was getting soaked in the rain I had never felt so much joy and calmness that it was beyond words to express it. By then I was standing there with my hand wide open and my umbrella upside down on the ground which was full of water. I was enjoying the hug of rain and at that moment I realized that I was enjoying the priceless beauty and sensation of the rain. It was then I learnt to enjoy the rain...........