Life's Simple Pleasures
It was way too hot earlier this afternoon. Hotter than usual. It was a SWELTERING kind of heat that I chugged down glasses and glasses of water which I rarely do. I usually chug down mugs and mugs and mugs of coffee so anyway, I tried going outside to our "veranda" and get the hell out of my oven of a PC room. The temperature was way higher outside than the inside! There was no wind not even a blow of a breeze. It was way too hot! I think I just lost 10 pounds worth of sweat just by walking a few step outside of that heat. I went back in the PC room and plopped back to surfing the net.
After a few hours of absolutely doing nothing, I was called down for dinner. We had to eat at the veranda because it was THAT really hot inside. After dinner which consist of just soup, (my dental surgery is still killing me) my mom and I had our usual after dinner talk. Usual meaning---> same stuff such as "go find a work", "you spend too much time in front of the PC" blah blah blah... We take our coffee (mine was iced) and just gazed at the garden. So we were there, comfortable in the silence between us and then out of nowhere and out of the blue... a gust of wind startled both of us and then it started to rain. Weird right?! Maybe the sun evaporated all the oceans and rivers surrounding our country and the sky just decided that it can't take too much weight and released it on us again.
It was a very very very HEAVY downpour! There was even lightning and thunder. There were strong winds that shook some trees we have around. We had to instruct our helper to make sure that windows were closed and to have our emergency lights prepared in case of a blackout. It was not only raining cats and dogs. It was raining PARKS AND WILDLIFE!! LOL It was THAT bad.
And maybe that BAD that it made me crazy, CRAZY enough to run out and dance under the rain. YEP, I did. I made a mad dash out from the veranda and into our cozy little garden and screamed like a girl because it was too cold. I stayed rooted to a spot and relished the feel of raindrops on my skin. My tank top was clinging to my body like a second skin. They were so big and it's coming on too strong that when I lift my face up to feel it, they are like small needles pricking my skin. It was AMAZING. I screamed and shrieked like a kid under the blankets and sheets of rain and my mom was out of her mind laughing at me and not even have the common sense to ask me to go back inside.
I danced and I slipped and fell on my butt and mom laughed at me. It was really crazy. I was laughing like a possessed woman and whenever I see a flash of lightning I would run back to the veranda and cover my ears for the loud thunder that would follow after. I go at it again after all the ruckus of lightning and thunder and continued to be a kid again.
It didn't stop there. Another crazy thing happened... my mother joined me. This is my mother we are talking about. A 70 year old lady! It was really really crazy. We laughed and screamed together like small girls and we duck and cover our ears when the lightning strikes and the thunder booms. I can't run back anymore regardless of the fear of getting hit by the lightning coz I can't dragged my mom with me coz she can't run and running in a slippery ground is IMPOSSIBLE. We cling to each other and pray and hope we dont get fried under the rain. LOL I tried to encourage our helper to join us but she had the common sense to decline politely.(killjoy!) Hell, even my dog was whining and crying wanting to be let out with us. It was so much fun!!
It was a BREATHTAKING experience. It was years and years ago when I last did this and I don't regret doing it now. It somehow liberated me and laughing under the rain with my mother is for the win.
The sky let up eventually after showing its wrath for 30 minutes. We went back inside, dripping all over the floor tiles and the helper giving us dagger looks. She had to go and get some towels and fresh clothes for us but we didn't care. It was an experience. I relived something from my childhood and I didn't realize how fun and amazing it all really is.
I realized now that I'm grateful for the heat earlier and how it irritated me senseless that it made me run under the rain. If not for the heat I would have never appreciated the rain... this downpour. If not for the heat I wouldn't be able to remember the feel of the raindrops on my skin, the strong wind in my face, the flash and spark of lightning and the boom of thunder. I would have never experienced this kind of JOY if not because of that.
Life is good. =)
After a few hours of absolutely doing nothing, I was called down for dinner. We had to eat at the veranda because it was THAT really hot inside. After dinner which consist of just soup, (my dental surgery is still killing me) my mom and I had our usual after dinner talk. Usual meaning---> same stuff such as "go find a work", "you spend too much time in front of the PC" blah blah blah... We take our coffee (mine was iced) and just gazed at the garden. So we were there, comfortable in the silence between us and then out of nowhere and out of the blue... a gust of wind startled both of us and then it started to rain. Weird right?! Maybe the sun evaporated all the oceans and rivers surrounding our country and the sky just decided that it can't take too much weight and released it on us again.
It was a very very very HEAVY downpour! There was even lightning and thunder. There were strong winds that shook some trees we have around. We had to instruct our helper to make sure that windows were closed and to have our emergency lights prepared in case of a blackout. It was not only raining cats and dogs. It was raining PARKS AND WILDLIFE!! LOL It was THAT bad.
And maybe that BAD that it made me crazy, CRAZY enough to run out and dance under the rain. YEP, I did. I made a mad dash out from the veranda and into our cozy little garden and screamed like a girl because it was too cold. I stayed rooted to a spot and relished the feel of raindrops on my skin. My tank top was clinging to my body like a second skin. They were so big and it's coming on too strong that when I lift my face up to feel it, they are like small needles pricking my skin. It was AMAZING. I screamed and shrieked like a kid under the blankets and sheets of rain and my mom was out of her mind laughing at me and not even have the common sense to ask me to go back inside.
I danced and I slipped and fell on my butt and mom laughed at me. It was really crazy. I was laughing like a possessed woman and whenever I see a flash of lightning I would run back to the veranda and cover my ears for the loud thunder that would follow after. I go at it again after all the ruckus of lightning and thunder and continued to be a kid again.
It didn't stop there. Another crazy thing happened... my mother joined me. This is my mother we are talking about. A 70 year old lady! It was really really crazy. We laughed and screamed together like small girls and we duck and cover our ears when the lightning strikes and the thunder booms. I can't run back anymore regardless of the fear of getting hit by the lightning coz I can't dragged my mom with me coz she can't run and running in a slippery ground is IMPOSSIBLE. We cling to each other and pray and hope we dont get fried under the rain. LOL I tried to encourage our helper to join us but she had the common sense to decline politely.(killjoy!) Hell, even my dog was whining and crying wanting to be let out with us. It was so much fun!!
It was a BREATHTAKING experience. It was years and years ago when I last did this and I don't regret doing it now. It somehow liberated me and laughing under the rain with my mother is for the win.
The sky let up eventually after showing its wrath for 30 minutes. We went back inside, dripping all over the floor tiles and the helper giving us dagger looks. She had to go and get some towels and fresh clothes for us but we didn't care. It was an experience. I relived something from my childhood and I didn't realize how fun and amazing it all really is.
I realized now that I'm grateful for the heat earlier and how it irritated me senseless that it made me run under the rain. If not for the heat I would have never appreciated the rain... this downpour. If not for the heat I wouldn't be able to remember the feel of the raindrops on my skin, the strong wind in my face, the flash and spark of lightning and the boom of thunder. I would have never experienced this kind of JOY if not because of that.
Life is good. =)