Running in the rain...just one of my days -- by Edmund

Today the skies opened up to me in a different way, a little more sentimental than usual...

It did not help that it coincided with my last day of work. How the world works, we do not know. For life has its own way of setting up the stage for every one of us to play this game, walk this journey or just simply... exist.

I was caught by surprise. The sudden change of mood from the clouds had no signs of an early morning ambush. On hindsight, the relentless downpour that would follow, was perhaps just a reflection of my own feelings of the day... Only to be belittled by one's pride and ego....

Walking along my familiar path to work, I was lullled into a false sense of security, thinking that it would be just another day at the office... and then it came... hard and fast, like a wailing kid that had just lost his candy floss, the tears from above gave its all. Standing there in the middle of the road, I paused for a while and quickly realised that I was caught in no man's land. Between the choice of seeking refuge under the nearest bus stop and making a mad dash to beat the rain, my free spirited heart took over and before long, I was galloping towards where I wanted to go...

Within a split second, and a few heavy smacks of raindrops on my forehead, I regretted for a fact, that cool, level headed rationality would have saved myself a complete drenching ?but it was also this very moment that I started to pick up my pace and breath to just count to myself.... I started running...somehow I left my thoughts behind like a gust of flailing wind... and just ran, and ran and ran....

It's strange, but when your mind starts running like this.... A different kind of experience begins to take over your bodily sensations. You do not know why, when and where it happened, but at the same time you don't really let that bother you anymore.... When you search deep within yourself to focus on what causes 'insane' decisions.... You will know... and be happy with what you find...

From then onwards, I could see... feel... smell... taste... and touch... I could sense warmth in my heart that the rain was not going to stop today from being a great day. Not the dark clouds or roaring thunder could intidimate the voice in my heart. Because in this little heart, I know that wherever I was heading for would bring comfort, happiness and joy...