The Rain

It has been raining since noon…There is a constant drizzle. The long and wide window panes are decked with silvery fine drops of water. It’s as if I am looking out through a galaxy of shiny stars adoring my window glass.

The day will be over soon and then there will be another day and then another and another. The life will go on. There will be changes – big and small. Changes that will make us admire the vast variety life offers…There is still so much to see, so much to experience. Was it not just a few days ago that I was watching this rain from the windows of my hostel? Was I not equally amused by the abundance of nature and the abundance of life experiences? It has been just 20 years since then…

Today when I am watching this rain, my heart jumps to the past and the next instance hops on to the future. In a few years’ time, I am sure I will be sitting at some window and watching the same heavenly rain. The windows will be different, may be there will be a different me too – but the rain will be as heavenly as it is today. Life would have given plentiful experiences till then, multitude of feelings and friends would have made the journey enriching…but the experience of rain would just be the same!! This rain would keep pouring on and on. It will keep drenching the window and will keep making my mind enjoy those impressions and imaginations of past and future.

Future that we don’t know, future when we would not be same as we are today, future that will be lost in memories of the past and the future that will keep wondering as to where every life return to…Will there be similar rain in that after life too? Will that rain remind me of all my rainy experiences? Will there be something to imagine for the journey thereafter?

And this rain continues…The daylight has almost retreated and the lustrous droplets on the glass seem to be just enjoying themselves!!