Dancing in the rain

"Rain rain, go away, come again, another day!!"

This is what comes to my mind, when I recall my feelings about the rain in my childhood days. This shows that I did not like the monsoon showers. But this does not depict the complete story. I didn't hate these showers completely. I used to hate these only when I was inside my house, else I would love to open my mouth to feel the pure taste of the raindrops, like any other child of my age.

Today, I wonder, why did i feel like this. Why did I like it only when outside of my house, why not the other way round.I got the answer, it was, the condition of the house we stayed in.

It was our ancestral house. Hence, we were in no mood to leave it. However, whenever it started raining outside, within few minutes, it would rain inside my house as well. The structure of the house was so old that there was water leakage from almost half of the ceiling in my room. Well, same was the condition of the kitchen of my house. At times, it was so worse that all of us were just looking for some abundant space without water where we could sit at the least.

People usually enjoy 'pakodas' in the rains, but we always used to get 'khichadi' or a quick cooking recipe as my mom could not stand for a longer time at a place where rain water was leaking from the ceiling while cooking. Well, hats-off mom, I wouldn't cook in such scenarios. You at the least, did so.

There are too many of the scenarios to pen down.

Well, this was my case. Now, when sitting in my house and enjoying the beautiful showers, my mind always gets flooded with the memories of these scenes from my childhood. I wonder, what would be the condition of the ones who do not have a shelter to dwell during the monsoons..! I just had a small problem of the leakage, which I found to be difficult, what would be their condition who have to spend their lives under the flyovers! Put yourself in their shoes, would you really find the 'Dancing in the rain' concept a spectacular experience..Here for these people, an out of the world concept does exist... 'Surviving in the rain'..

No, I am not spreading pessimism or negativity to your mind. You might be thinking what could be done in such situations. Neither can we offer all of them with a shelter, nor can we stop the rains. However, there is a way we can help these people. The way is to find out some old rain-coats, the out of use clothes of ours and try to give these to the needful. This way, I don’t assure, will make them actually 'Dancing in the rain' but will surely enable them to 'survive in the rain'.

Next time, you find your wardrobe full of clothes you don’t use, remember these people and try helping them,because,

YOU CAn gift the clothing you don’t need anymoRE.