Rains - Do you enjoy them or hate them?

If there is even a few days of delay in the rains hitting our streets and providing us with first smell of the wet earth from what has been predicted by the metrology department, we start panicking. A few months of the summer heat and humidity does that to us - make us desperate to get respite from the heat and rains act as our saviour. 

We look forward to that first sound of thunder, the presence of black clouds hovering in the sky, a pleasant weather, anything that gives us that glimmer of hope that we are about to get the monsoons.

But I have observed that this optimism and positivity towards the rains is very short-lived by most people. It is not that people stop enjoying the rains after a point of time completely, it is the set of problems that it brings along which makes people want the rains to stop.

The proof of this reality is evident in the popular lines that all of us are familiar with: Rain, rain go away. Come again some other day.

Let me try and explain this. There are two categories of people largely: one category is those who love the rains and the other category is of those who hate the rains. Individuals in these categories are not mutually exclusive. In fact, all of us fall into one of the two categories at some point or the other depending Ron the situation and occasion that we are in.

Following are some of the situations when different people love the rains:
* When you are sitting at home, enjoying a nice cup of tea in the balcony along with pakoras.
* When a group of friends have gone on a long drive and the rain is just making the scenery around look beautiful.
* When heavy rains would lead to an off from school for a kid who hates going to school.
* When a guy is going on a bike ride with his girlfriend.
* When a couple are sitting by the sea and enjoying a hot corn cob between them.

Following are some of the situations when the same set of people despise the rains:
* When you are headed to office and a bit of rainfall is all it takes to bring the city to a standstill and your car to a start stop start stop routine and double the time from your normal time to reach office.
* When women are all dressed up in their finery for a wedding where they are supposed to walk in the Baraat and there are puddles all around.
* When you are living in a city like Mumbai and you are heading home and your means of transport - local trains are either filled to the brim or have stopped functioning due to the heavy rains and you have no way to reach home.
* When you are headed to the airport, already running late and with the rains, your chance of reaching the airport on time looks very unlikely.

Like I had mentioned, none of these are situations happening with different people but rather situations that all of us have faced at some point of time in our lives. So the next time that you are praying for rains, pray for the rains as well as the situation you want to be in so that you can enjoy the rains rather than curse and despise such a beautiful phenomenon.

While you guys read this, let me enjoy a hot cup of coffee while I enjoy  the rain from my balcony :)