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The Joy of Rain
The drops of first rain of the season touched my heart and I got a tingle which suddenly made the life inside me laugh with joy. There had been a long time since I wrote anything but today these drops woke up the writer inside me who wanted to describe the pleasures which were growing inside me with the splashes of water outside.
The sound of water reminded me of my childhood when there were no worries in life and we used to play in the water nonstop. We used to jump on the roads, on terrace with fun and in the middle of crowd watching us. Now we have become that crowd and there are new buds that are enjoying the rain. I thought these plants and trees are so lucky that they get the joy of new birth every year in the rain whereas we get the chance of enjoying the freshness of childhood only once in life and after it is gone we cannot become child again.
I watched the trees near my building which had become brown with the heat in the summer but now they have suddenly turned green with the joy of water sprinkling on them. There was a ground where I could hardly see any grass and children used to play on the rough surface. But today it was looking fresh green and with water waves flowing in between them. Children were still enjoying the same ground but today with a new excitement.
I watched the sun peeping through the clouds and felt like playing with it. The way it hid itself behind the cloud and after some time shows itself again with a foggy glow because of the smoky weather. The same sun which was hot and harsh has suddenly turned into a soft glow and gave a soothing feeling. It also gave us different shades of its glow through every lining of the clouds floating over it.
I felt the same freshness in the breeze and on the earth which must have been there when God created this planet. It appeared as if God has given us a beautiful home with freedom of enjoying it and spoiling it as well. And now that we have had enough of tampering with it, he is pouring water to clean our mistakes. We are so lucky that he is giving us one more chance to see the same beautiful earth which was there before we spoiled it and we have this luck every year.
Like someone said “Light comes after darkness” in the same way joy comes after sorrow, rain comes after heat, life comes after death. Yet we talk more about one part rather than enjoying the second part fully.
You may say this is just a season but just watch the beauties it brings with itself. The heat is gone, new lives have sprouted, streets have colors with umbrellas adding to its beauty, children play in water making the scene more lively, the sun mellows down to give its peaceful shades, the groups of different shades of clouds makes a soft blanket for us and there are many more unsaid and unheard wonders which can bring us joy.
I closed my eyes to see and hear these wonders through my inner eye which is not overshadowed by the biases created by Humans and I could see the aura of God and hear the sound of its solace which gave me the feeling of my own voice of my own lost soul.
And I sung with joy:
“
Barish ki ye Bunde
Lagti hain Dil Ko Chunne
Karne lagti hain jaise koi gudgudi si
Yaad Dilati us kal ki
Wo bite hue pal ki
Jab befikra hoke paani mein the kude
Ye tare asaman ke
Yun jholi mein gira ke
Kehta hai wo ki shumo nacho gao
Is man mein hai umang si
Ek bijli ki tarang si
Jo kaheti hai dil ko ki muskurao
Sab gamon ko bhulake
Aur sapno ko sajake
Aao nai subah sajayen jindagi ki
Hum jugnoo banke khele
Masti bundo se lele
Jagaen jindagi ki saari ummeedein
Choddo ye udasi
Tanhai kyon satati
Sab mil ke barish mein dunein sunao
Chatriyon ke rang se
In boondon ke sang se
Apne man ko un foolon se sajao
Jo kehte hain yun khil ke
Kaali ghata se mil ke
Aao hum khushiyon se sajayen mehfil ko
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