After an extended dry spell and after the prediction from the Met dept of the driest July in quite a few years we (quite expectedly) had unexpected showers today evening.
The entire fuss that happens within seconds is just remarkable. All of a sudden there's shock, despair, panic and there's a feeling of catastrophe among people as if they're gonna melt if they come in contact with water. There is a hurry to draw umbrellas and raincoats. Those less fortunate are desperately seeking cover. There's pushing, shoving, swearing. Quite a scene!
But what I dont get is this...
In the dead centre of the month of March across the country people celebrate Holi followed by the worst form of celebrations. The horrendous games of water mixed with anything possible is just strange. As if the genetic proof wasn't enough people actually go out of the way to prove that we have lineage derived from apes! On that day people are ok to get drenched in shit I can't even imagine.
I can still let go of this lunacy under the excuse that it's a festival.
What's even more bizarre is the amount of effort people put in to reach swimming pools or beaches. They spend a fortune on some club membership or organize expensive holidays, spend on strange looking designer outfits specifically for swimming/the beach, buying a collection of lotions and tans and what not. People are actually quite desperate to reach the ocean or some water body. It's almost like a life and death situation!
What kind of hypocrisy is this! Are these same people who're averse to tini-mini water droplets falling on them?? What have the droplets of water done to receive such discriminatory and demeaning reactions?
I presume the reason is that they may contain only water soluble gases like carbon-di-oxide, carbon monoxide, traces of sulphur di oxide, dust particles which are totally unacceptable. They would've been welcome if they were containing chlorine or even the traces of liquid human waste emissions like in swimming pools or some really unidentifiable living and non-living suspensions like in oceans but without that water's gotta be off our skin!!
Well... it's easy to have such utterly senseless thoughts when all you're doing is having that extra cup of tea in the food court just to kill enough time for the rain to subside!
Cheers!
The entire fuss that happens within seconds is just remarkable. All of a sudden there's shock, despair, panic and there's a feeling of catastrophe among people as if they're gonna melt if they come in contact with water. There is a hurry to draw umbrellas and raincoats. Those less fortunate are desperately seeking cover. There's pushing, shoving, swearing. Quite a scene!
But what I dont get is this...
In the dead centre of the month of March across the country people celebrate Holi followed by the worst form of celebrations. The horrendous games of water mixed with anything possible is just strange. As if the genetic proof wasn't enough people actually go out of the way to prove that we have lineage derived from apes! On that day people are ok to get drenched in shit I can't even imagine.
I can still let go of this lunacy under the excuse that it's a festival.
What's even more bizarre is the amount of effort people put in to reach swimming pools or beaches. They spend a fortune on some club membership or organize expensive holidays, spend on strange looking designer outfits specifically for swimming/the beach, buying a collection of lotions and tans and what not. People are actually quite desperate to reach the ocean or some water body. It's almost like a life and death situation!
What kind of hypocrisy is this! Are these same people who're averse to tini-mini water droplets falling on them?? What have the droplets of water done to receive such discriminatory and demeaning reactions?
I presume the reason is that they may contain only water soluble gases like carbon-di-oxide, carbon monoxide, traces of sulphur di oxide, dust particles which are totally unacceptable. They would've been welcome if they were containing chlorine or even the traces of liquid human waste emissions like in swimming pools or some really unidentifiable living and non-living suspensions like in oceans but without that water's gotta be off our skin!!
Well... it's easy to have such utterly senseless thoughts when all you're doing is having that extra cup of tea in the food court just to kill enough time for the rain to subside!
Cheers!
1 comment:
oh!!!!
how I crave that cup of tea...
while watching the pitter [atter of the rain drops.
Lifes changed a bit for me, so its a cup of starbucks coffee while watching the rain or rather while walking in the rain.
anywho, i cannot believe u missed out the chance to get drenched once in a while....
but hell what do I know, I havent seen Indian rains for 3 years now :(
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