First Rains

The first rains of the monsoon. You feel like soaking yourself in the wet atmosphere, the air heavy with moisture and laden with the smell of wet earth. And the feeling you get after the first drops fall on your skin! Its not only about a sense of overwhelming relief that the rains have arrived finally. Nor is it only about that childish happiness after getting drenched. Its about something much deeper. I personally get this feeling that the first rains are washing away all the anxieties, problems, frustrations, failures et al that have been allowed to settle inside you during the course of the past year. The advent of the monsoon heralds a new beginning washing away the negativities of the past in its swathe and providing nourishment for a thousand seeds of optimism to bloom in your heart. Welcome the rains!