Explanation

Rain and My Liking For It

Am I the only one who enjoys rain?

It's just that a lot of people seem to not like rain.

I don't get why, exactly, that I like it, but I love rainy days and I constantly hope for thunderstorms or rainy days. I just think that it helps me think with rain.

Rain seems to relax a lot of people, but I don't find rain relaxing.

I find rain exhilarating and happy and fun and loud and I get so energetic when it comes time for some rain.

I love rain.

On a summer day, it cools you off. You go out to feel cool droplets of water soak your forehead and arms and just a little bit of relief from the humidity and sweltering heat of summer.

In spring, you most likely get torrential downpours all day long. You laugh and hang out with friends outside and splash in puddles and just have fun. You feel the rain soak through your clothes and you don't care because in this moment, you are truly happy and loved.

In fall, you smell the scent of rain above the crispness of fallen leaves and when the rain hits those leaves it makes a drumbeat. You go outside out of necessity and don't want to go back home, so you hesitate walking home, taking your time and getting soaked with no thought of getting sick because finally, you can think and be alone without everyone hassling you.

And when winter comes, you feel snow underneath your feet and on your eyelashes and snowflakes melting on your face as your bundled up in layers upon layers of wool and flannel and anything keep your body warm. But, you really want to take all those layers off with only a shirt and jeans and shoes on and run through the mounds of snows beside you, trying to get to the top, even when, with every step, snow crumbles beneath your feet.

Rain and snow are marvelous things that so many people take for granted.

I wish it rained more than it did now and snowed more in the winter. During fall, I wish I had necessities to go out for. During spring, I wish I had not friends to share it with me.

What rain is to me, is inspiration.

When it rains, you have excuses to do something, like maybe write a chapter of a book you're writing, draw a piece of art or  a sketch that you've been trying to finish and perfect for a while, read a book or book series that you've been dying to read, practice a song or piece you've been wanting to get perfectly right, and, for gods sakes, do homework or a report for work or an article you need to finish or something else productive.

On rainy days, you have the ability to do anything you want or need to do.

Once you've finished school/work, of course.

When it snows, cherish it because it may never come again. Have snowball fights, build snowman, snowboard, go sledding, and, most importantly, have fun.

Snowy and rainy days are not boring and you can do so much more than sit on the couch watching TV or on the computer on social media.

So, for me, turn off your WiFi and unplug your TV. Pull up Microsoft Word or something like that and write down your goals. You don't have to share them with anyone. Once you've written them down, start on the first one. After that, do the second. Do as many as you can before the day is over. If you haven't finished them all, keep the ones you haven't finished for the next day, because even though the next day may not be rainy or snowy, you'll have something to do once you get home or before anything you have to go to.

And the good thing is you can add and delete goals as you gain new ones and finish old ones.

So, I guess, you could say, I see rainy days from a scewed perspective, but that's how I see it and I like it that way.

Good Night And Good Dreams everyone,

Katie Houde, signing out.