Hello all from my bedroom,
The rain is taunting me so sweetly with its soft lullaby. It normally does one of two things to me; it either makes me sleepy, or for some unknown reason, turns me on. Today, it is sleep. This may be because I only got one hour of sleep last night. My circadian rhythms hate me right now.
Have you ever tried to kiss in the rain? It is not how it is made out to be in the movies or books. They make it look all steamy and passionate. I mean, just look what it did for Allie and Noah in the Notebook, it brought their whole relationship back to life. This is false. I tried it once in high school after a baseball game. A torrential downpour hit as I walked with a boy to his truck. We did it, just to see what it was like. After water running into our mouths and practically drowning from not being able to breathe, we both pulled back, shook our heads deciding it wasn't as cool as we had thought, and laughed. Try it if you must, just to mark it off your bucket list, but I don't think it is all that fabulous. I tried to kiss someone while submerged in my pool, that didn't work out too well either.
I love the rain though. To me, it is a metaphor for a new beginning. Think about it. Ever notice how good you feel after falling asleep to the rain? Or how good everything smells? Except for asphalt, that is some stank stuff when it is wet. I imagine the rain washing over me and taking all the bad things with it; a bad mood, a nightmare, a failed chemistry exam, a crappy day, etc. There is nothing more healing to me than the sound of rain on a tin roof. Maybe it will rain when I am up in the Loft this weekend, it has a tin roof. A girl can only hope.
People equate bad things with rain. It is gloomy and dark, so it is understandable why. Storms destroy beautiful things. I think though, it the end result that outweighs all the bad. After the floors of Heaven open up, the world glistens. Everything is shiny and bright. The leaves look like emeralds on trees, the roads look like long lazy black rivers, and the sun seems to beam even more intensely than before.
The world is all what you make of it. Do you look at it and see all the bad, horrible things? Or do you blink, take a second glance, and find beauty through the darkness of it all? How the world is today, it is hard to ignore the bad. But, somehow, after a "storm," a rainbow appears. There are things going on in the world, in my life, in my friends' lives, that I have to believe something good is going to come out of it all. If I didn't, if I couldn't believe that, I would go insane. The rainbows are coming, we just have to wait and believe through it all to be able to see it.
Poahl Dahl (whoever he/she is) said, "And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
I found this on the internet one day, and it stuck with me so much I put it in my phone. I find if anyone ever wanted to know who I truly am, all they'd have to do is look into my note folder, my Ipod, and my Pandora radio station list. Looking at someone's music is a direct window to their thoughts, desires, and heart. I put things that are important to me in my note folder. I fear if I ever lost this phone, the person who found it would think I was crazy. Perhaps I am.
Whatever storm you are riding out right now, know that there is something beautiful coming at the end. It may take a while, you may feel like you are waiting forever, but don't give up hope of seeing it. It will be in the most unlikely of places.
Don't view the rain as a mood buster, find a good book or someone you find sexy, snuggle up to them, and ride it out.
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