It rained today, and boy how it rained today! Starting with an uncertain drizzle, it soon resolved into an intense downpour. There is always something pretty immersive about torrential rain as it comes down in sheets. The word immersive may be tossed about both ways here. Apart from literally doing what it implies, it also severs all visual connection one has with his surroundings. With sheets of water shimmering down which ever way one looks, the sense of isolation from one’s known surroundings is immediate. One becomes an island. The solitude is absolute and well, immersive.
The only sound is the constant drumming that “immerses” all other noise. It’s a relief of sorts, however, for the ears not to have to listen to the normal cacophony of urban sounds. In such situations my normal impulse is to look within, immerse myself in my memories and appreciate and feel thankful for whatever nuggets of gold I have stored there.
No rain experience is complete without getting thoroughly wet. Our balcony, facing south west, is always inundated in such rains. It’s the best place to get wet. The mango tree, at the front, which has been stubbornly growing wild for the past seven years or so, is yet to bear any fruit. We have all given up hopes of getting any fruits from it. Laden with dust and grime it wears a forlorn look, apparently saddened by it’s neglected status. However, it stubbornly refuses to give up, playing home to the numerous doves and pigeons that nest in it’s branches.
Today it whispers, murmurs and shows a high degree of animation as the water cascades down and the wind becomes playful. It no longer seems saddened by it’s own mundane existance. After the rains, washed of its grime, it will look fresh and new again, as if shining with new hope.
All this train of events and thoughts had been triggered by cyclone Mora. Rearing up in the Bay of Bengal it wreaked vengeance on Bangladesh. What we felt is just a watered down part of it. Lives were lost there, homes destroyed, people displaced. And for us it was just another downpour to bring some relief from the sweltering heat.
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