The Different Kinds of Rain

Every kind of rain is a mood.

• The drizzle. The soft pitter patter. Just enough to provide a breath fresh air on hot, sunny day. Just enough to smell like the earth and mud.
  

• The first showers. Beautiful and aesthetic. Good enough to post on Instagram. The one that indicates rain holidays are just around the corner.
  

• The cold ones. The one that makes you hug yourself. The one that makes your nose go cold. The "bhajji sapadalama" kind of rain.

• The romanticised ones. The filmy kind - dancing by yourself on the terrace, having some fun with friends on the roads or kissing your significant other in the middle of nowhere.

• The thunderstorm. Magnificent as it is mighty. Fierce yet life giving. Bringing joy to millions of farmers across the country by keeping the water crisis at bay.
  

• The Flood. Unstoppable. It's a still a mood. Not ours but Mother Nature's. Keeping us in check. Giving herself sometime to heal.
  

• Pralayam. The ultimate flood in Hindu Mythology which, both, creates and destroys life. Starting afresh. Cleaning the debris.
  

P.S. That took a slightly dark turn but rain completes the circle of life. It's metaphorical and beautiful. And I finally understand poets' fascination with it.