Go for a walk in the rain

“Yesterday I went for my afternoon walk. It was cloudy but had stopped raining from earlier in the day. I thought I could get my 1 hour walk in. Half way through it started to rain hard. I was far from home so I thought I might as well enjoy it. I didn’t care I was getting soaked from head to toe and it felt so good. It’s been probably ten years since I’ve let myself get drenched in the rain on purpose like that. I felt like being a kid again. When I got back home, I immediately took a hot shower which was a nice way to end a simple but memorable experience.”

“But there’s no ocean shore here, no river, just a housing development and a lot of puddles. As I walk out the door and into the street, reflections of the trees overhead in these puddles double the number of branches so that I feel surrounded by trees, lost in trees above and below me. It’s a strange sensation, but not at all an unpleasant one, a disappearing into the landscape, and I find myself wondering if, when I die, death isn’t going to be something like this. If it is, I think, it won’t be so bad.”