It rained hard an hour ago today. Outside, it was all wet, dark, and gloomy. Yet contrary to the weather-can-affect-your-mood theory, I love it everytime it rains. Aside from lending a cool breeze to the sun’s scorching heat, rains bring back amusing memories.
It rained when I was about to sing in an induction program way back in Grade 3.
It rained when I was delivering my valedictory speech during our elementary graduation.
It rained when I first went out with these two guys — one I really liked, one I really hated.
It rained when I was on my way to the airport to take that 14-hour flight to London.
It rained when a friend brought me to the most beautiful garden I’ve ever seen.
Though I had my share of rains in its figurative sense, I loved them just the same because after them, rainbows set in. I used to believe that there are people who are reallly malas in all aspects of their lives. As they say, you can never have the best of all worlds because you can not simply have everything. But I realized it’s just a matter of how we turn the bad luck into good ones, the rains into sunshines, the misfortunes into blessings in disguise.
Besides, if everything is too perfect, there will be no more opportunities for us to learn, improve, or grow. To take new leases in life. To seek better things ahead. To tread new journeys. To face and survive greater challenges that will make us the best persons that we can ever be.
So, if ever you’ve got rains in your lives, just smile because it only means one thing– the best is yet to come. Trust me, it really does.
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