Pure

I've always been fond of the rain. The static temporary stillness that the rain graced by just being there. All outdoor activities gradually stops, paying their respect to something bigger than human beings, saluting the mother nature. Perhaps, mothers still taking care of their children, fathers still doing their jobs, some grandmothers still mourning for the lost of their love life, some kids still trying to steal cookies before dinnertime and some lonely people still hoping when the rain can bring some miracles to their tiny, what they seemed, insignificant lives. Rain has such an enigmatic power that can reduce us to our simplest form of emotions, to reduce us into something trivial, to remind us that there is something more gigantic and more important than us, like the mother nature.

Some find blessings under the rain. Some find mistakes. Nevertheless, the mysterious divine strength behind ordinary weather is quite life-changing. The rain has also another trick on its sleeve when it comes to melancholy, nostalgia, pensive musings, it can find the most sorrowful memory or the most euphoric moments in your life, grip them tight and watch them fall apart around you, making your being reminded of the presence of the past again and again. Forgotten terrible mistakes can be recalled again in front of your eyes, like you are there again. The dark monsters and the empty nightmares are there again, lurking, poking about and laughing at your fear because it manifests itself from your profound, yet unexplainable, frights. Nevertheless, there are some happiness, or perhaps sentimental, feeling about the rain, how it can remind you of the sweet sound of your lovers' laugh when they were dancing in the rain with you, how it can make you miss your grandmother's hot honeyed tea, how it can make you sing the old tunes you thought you forgot and how it can make you cherish the days you once knew. I suppose the rain can do all that because it is, undeniably, unquestionably and scientifically-approved, basic form of every being in the whole world. Hydrogen and Oxygen.