Showing posts with label rain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rain. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Of Rain and the Rainbows Thereafter


It’s been more than a year since I started this blog, and I finally realized I haven’t been treating it right. For starters, the blog was started without so much as a name or a purpose in mind. I just remember deciding one fine day that I needed a place to put down all the random thoughts that keep circling my mind all day, and voila, this virtual baby was born. Not even five minutes’ worth of thinking went into deciding its name. I was jobless and sitting idle at home at the time, hence ‘Confessions of an idle mind’ seemed proper. However, now that the idle phase is long gone, I thought the name didn’t quite cut it anymore. So for the past couple of days, I’d been thinking of a new name for my blog: something that would say everything this blog is about. And then it occurred to me that since this little virtual corner talks about all my rainy days and sometimes the beautiful rainbows that adorn my horizon, the name should relate to this. Hence 'Of Rain and The Rainbows Thereafter' came to mind. What more, the new name goes perfectly with my template that I dearly love. 

Along with the new name, I have plans of giving more time to my blog from now on. I’ve neglected it long enough and it deserves more grooming and caring. I still don’t plan to categorize this blog into any particular subject, but I will try to focus more on the rainbows than the rain this time around, although the beauty in raindrops won’t be ignored altogether. Any suggestions/advice/comments from my readers are very welcome too.
Anyways, I hope you like the new name. Drop me a line or two about what you think of it. Have a great day/week y’all!







Saturday, April 02, 2011

Beautiful April Rain

You're pouring outside. You're pouring with unabashed might and vigour, snatching my attention from the final game of the ICC World Cup 2011. There's thunder too; lightning, thunder, the works. Best of all is the amazing breeze you've brought along, pushing its way through my thick curtains to cool my cheeks that have heated up from the excitement of watching the match. I'm so glad you came.

You, you do things to me. Sometimes you drench my heart with a melancholy that I just can't seem to shrug off easily; at other times, you refresh my soul and wash away the sludge of stress and disappointment that everyday life seems to pile on a regular basis. You're beautiful, I could sing love songs about you for hours. I love the grey clouds that carefully conceal you within themselves, keeping me guessing for hours till you finally decide it's time to grace my windowpane with your first droplet. I love the moist breeze that accompanies you, heavily laden (can I say 'pregnant'?) with your 'cool' presence and I love the freshness you leave behind in the world around me. I love how sometimes, when I'm asleep, you quietly walk outside my window and work your magic to push me into a deeper and more enjoyable slumber. I love how you make me crave for spicy warm comfort food like 'khichudi'.

Sometimes, you're outright cruel: making me want to listen to slow sad songs, tugging at the well-hidden strings of my heart to pull open the floodgate of memories I prefer not to let out and enveloping me with your greyness. That is cruel, I tell you. But I love you anyway, for all objects we love are cruel to us, some time or another. Such is my unconditional love for you.


I'm looking forward to see more of you in the upcoming days. No matter what kind of mood you get me in, you're always welcome on my window pane :)