The Rain

[*Deidre*]

Sitting here still, watching the rain. There's something about a rainstorm that's calming and comforting. As the water hits the pavement and slickers the grass, it feels like it's instructing me to stay still. There's no rush, I don't need to leave the house. It's okay to do nothing for a moment, or two. The stillness and quiet feels good. I can't hear any cars whizzing by or airplanes in the sky, just the hammering of water droplets falling on my windows and rooftop. I like the sound of rain, and how it drowns out life. Quiets everything and everyone around you, even birds take cover, and you can barely hear their faint chirping in the distance.

The rain stopped a few minutes ago, which means I need to move, get busy, [i]do things[/i]. Be productive. But, for those 30 minutes, the rain let me slow down, and think about everything and nothing, all at once. Until, I only thought of it. How powerful the sky is, and how I'll never really understand clouds.

I hear birds chirping again, and the whirring of airplane engines overhead. Looking outside, the sun is trying to peek through the silver ribbons of clouds, and the cycle of nature begins anew. After rain, comes the sun...and perhaps, a blurry rainbow. In about an hour, the sidewalks will be dry, and it will seem like all of what I'm telling you, never happened at all. But, it did. That's the tricky part about rain. It leaves you with a good story, but maybe only one that you believe.

That is all so corny...

You're corny.

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And if you have a treasure and people think it's crap,  you hold on to that treasure. And if you have something worthless, and people think highly of it,  don't attach yourself to it.

You can't convince everyone what you experience is true and what you experienced is meaningful. It belongs to you, that's it a gift you treasure and hold on to from God.

Yep, just sharing what I go through when it rains.  

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What you wrote is beautiful. Sometimes after a storm is a perfect rainbow.  I hope you found your niche in the darkness and continue to move forward.

A rainbow happens when the sun makes an opposite 22 degree angle towards rain. You would give credit to a fantasy instead of understanding the phenomena-

But I figure you are not after that.

Do you have to make the thread about you? 

I put this in the writing section, not to start arguments that can happen in the other 1249987 threads on here. It's an artistic thing, not a debate thread. lol