I have always loved watching the raindrops fall on a surface, and making different, interesting patterns. The pitter-patter has such a soothing effect on your mind. And it always brings back fond memories, so much so that I want to recount them all:

1. The scent of the earth – the thing i like best about the pre-monsoon showers. I remember when I was a kid, and started to realise that the intoxicating aroma is to be associated with rain – the nature’s amazing at its ways.

2. The wonderful aroma from the kitchen – of pakoras, atte ka halwa or bhutte ka kees – though ever since I am on my own, it’s not that frequent :)

3. The cool breeze that my home got with each lashing of the monsoon showers – courtesy the lake in front of our home. The mist that came with it made you stand on the porch for hours.

4. The closing down of the school on a rainy day – the residential colony near our school sent the maximum number of students, and was linked to school through a bridge over a nalla. The rains flooded it, and because the students could not make it – it was RAINY DAY HOLIDAY!!

5. Coming back from college getting drenched in the rain – leaving the college at a strategic time to ensure that we will be drenched by the time we reach home, with a stop-over for a bhutta – what fun!!

6. Listening to the list of favorite rain songs – ‘Rimjhim gire saawan’ by Kishore Kumar topping it – ‘Ab ke saawan’ by Shubha Mudgal not too far behind :)

 

7. All the romantic walks taken with the love of my life while it’s raining - I know, I know – I am being mushy – but i love it all the same.

Strangely, I love rains only for the first few times every year. Then, you start seeing the flooded/ pot-holed roads, the mosquitoes, the lizards, the dampness all around, and wham! the romance ends!! But do I wait for them to come back again – you bet!