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On a Rainy Day
It was a quiet saturday evening, dark clouds covering the sky and my heart was warmly awaiting the midsummer showers. The greenery was inviting and becoming more lush with every passing rain. I was sitting in a gazebo in the middle of my lawn and enjoying the serenity of the surroundings. The unique and pleasant about to rain fragrance was bringing in refreshing memories of many a kind. I was having a cup of hot tea and crispy just out of the frying pan pakodas. As expected, it started raining and it went on for quite sometime. I finished with my pakodas which had greased my fingertips with a film of oil and I wanted to wash my hands badly so that I could pick up a book to read. But the rains wouldnt stop and I just could not go the watertap located at the end of the lawn. I waited and waited for the rains to stop so that I could go to the tap. After a while I suddenly realised, that I was just sitting inside a waterfall and how. The gazebo had a conical roof and the rains waters gushed down all around from the roof, making a clean cyllindrical curtain of water!! And here I was, waiting for the rains to stop so that I could reach the tap and wash my hands.
This was a small incident but brought out profound lessons for me. It dawned on me that often our preconcieved notions and closed minds, blinds us to the bigger realities that lie right in front of our eyes. Sometimes, these realities are so huge that it escapes the attention of our eyes due to its sheer enormity of size which is wide than our field of view. We search, pursue, struggle, and many times succumb without experiencing that the truth we sought for was right in front of us. A small experience, but a big lesson for me on a rainy day. I washed my hands gleefully in the water gushing down from the roof and as happy as child having learnt a new rhyme in his nursery. Hope I will be able to remember this lesson when the exams come!!
It was a quiet saturday evening, dark clouds covering the sky and my heart was warmly awaiting the midsummer showers. The greenery was inviting and becoming more lush with every passing rain. I was sitting in a gazebo in the middle of my lawn and enjoying the serenity of the surroundings. The unique and pleasant about to rain fragrance was bringing in refreshing memories of many a kind. I was having a cup of hot tea and crispy just out of the frying pan pakodas. As expected, it started raining and it went on for quite sometime. I finished with my pakodas which had greased my fingertips with a film of oil and I wanted to wash my hands badly so that I could pick up a book to read. But the rains wouldnt stop and I just could not go the watertap located at the end of the lawn. I waited and waited for the rains to stop so that I could go to the tap. After a while I suddenly realised, that I was just sitting inside a waterfall and how. The gazebo had a conical roof and the rains waters gushed down all around from the roof, making a clean cyllindrical curtain of water!! And here I was, waiting for the rains to stop so that I could reach the tap and wash my hands.
This was a small incident but brought out profound lessons for me. It dawned on me that often our preconcieved notions and closed minds, blinds us to the bigger realities that lie right in front of our eyes. Sometimes, these realities are so huge that it escapes the attention of our eyes due to its sheer enormity of size which is wide than our field of view. We search, pursue, struggle, and many times succumb without experiencing that the truth we sought for was right in front of us. A small experience, but a big lesson for me on a rainy day. I washed my hands gleefully in the water gushing down from the roof and as happy as child having learnt a new rhyme in his nursery. Hope I will be able to remember this lesson when the exams come!!
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