On A Rainy Day

Rains are magical. They enchant, glorify and make the environment happy and pleasing naturally. I love rains because they disrupt the daily chaos and bring smiles to my face. Somewhere, rains can be best called as a "break", a break from the monotonous life, a break from the rush and, a break to stop everything and just be in the moment.

Rains are memorable also. The experiences, good or bad, that occur especially in rains, are remembered forever. I remember, a few years back, one day me and mother were searching for a rented house and suddenly rains started. We were miles away from our then house and looking for a house in a place where we stayed for nearly 15 years. My maternal aunt was staying just few meters away to this place where we were looking for the rented flat. The rains started very severely along with the thunderstorm. The air was so fast and heavy that both, my mother and me, were swaying back and forth. It was summers and we didn’t expect that rains would come. So, we didn’t have the umbrella. The road was long and the shops were also closed that day due to Monday bazaar. In that extreme weather, nobody was even walking on that road except me and my mother. Generally, if a relative or friend stays nearby and you are in trouble, you would ask for help and a relative or friend would help. My mother called her sister and said that she’s stuck in rains and she’s nearby her sister’s house. It was raining so heavily that any relative, friend or even stranger would give shelter as a human being. Personally, we never ask for help from our relatives. However, this time when natural calamity happened, we decided to ask my mother’s sister if she can help us in this rainy weather and if we can come to her house for shelter. She was upfront in saying "NO" to us and said that she’s not at home. We didn’t expect that a real sister could do such thing because even a stranger would help in such a bad weather condition and she was my mother’s sister. How could she say no? My mother’s sister is a housewife and hardly goes out. Later, we checked and found that the house was opened. My mother is a senior citizen and saying no is disgusting, shameful and horrible on the part of my mother’s sister. Anyways, we stayed in the heavy rains and stood there for 2-3 hours before the rain stopped and few people started walking on the road.

This experience taught me that it is better to invest your time in the right people because no matter how much respect and time you give to the wrong ones, they would always backstab or refuse to help when needed. Anyways, they are not worth talking about. My mother’s sister didn’t even care to ask my mother later about how my mother and I had coped the rainy weather with storms that day.

Through this platform and my experience, I want to urge people to have humanity to help relatives, friends or even strangers in their struggles, fights and pains. What if you get stuck in rains or robbers attack you, should we also do the same because karma always come back? Let's Be Good, Do Good:)