It's All About Monsoon

After the long hot, scorching summer days, the first shower of monsoon brings a sigh of relief to each and everybody. The downpour quenches the thirst of the parching earth. With the onset of the season, both plants and animals, withered by the tremendous heat, enliven and come back to their full life. The sapless, pale-looking, dust-smitten trees regain their green and healthy look.

A day, especially if it is a holiday, when it's raining cats and dogs outside, and you have no work to do, is an ideal day to spend it in an innovative way or to take a short afternoon nap under your blanket. The charm of such a cloudy day will remain unappreciated if I forget to mention an evening hot tea or coffee with some spicy snacks or a crumb of hot cake.

When we talk of monsoon a number of things come to our mind. Monsoon is associated with many things. It has a strong bond with music. The pitter patter sound of the rain droplets on the window pane makes us to dance and sing. Looking at the rain droplets hitting the ground, we cannot help remembering the song 'singing in the rain' from the movie Singin' in the rain where Gene Kelly has been shown dancing with the song while splashing through puddles during a storm.

But too much of anything is destructive as well as cloying, so is to the rain. We appreciate raining till the climate becomes cool enough. But when it continues raining for several days and causes flood, we feel hell like and our trouble knows no bound. Suppose you are going to a party, all dressed up in your fineries and it starts raining heavily. How exactly do you feel? Oh! It's quite mood dampening. It will ruin your party or somehow you manage to get outside, you will be completely drenched in the shower. But on the other hand, sufficient raining is important for a good harvest.

Monsoon is a season when extra care has to be taken to everything, be it our vehicles, our accessories or ourselves. Various diseases, accidents and ailments come trailing in monsoon.