Rain After the Sun?

Hey everyone!! Welcome back to my blog, as all of you from England may know, there has been an INSANE heatwave for the past few days. The weather has nearly reached 40 degrees Celsius and it's been near impossible to even move. Literally half an hour ago it started to rain and it really inspired me to write. I feel like my productivity hasn't been the best and I set lots of goals for this summer but at the rate my life is going, none of them will be fulfilled. I may sound like a crazy plant girl (which I am) but the little bit of rain today really spoke to me and kind of reminded me that everything's going to be ok. Anyways, onto the post!

I always hear people use the phrase 'there is always sun after the rain' in order to get through hard times or to make it seem like there is hope for after the hard times. I don't know if it's my Londoner self or my inner Mumbai monsoon season self speaking when I say this but I could not disagree more with this statement because I think it's the rain that brings hope, not the sun.

As I mentioned above, the heatwave in England this week has made everyone go a bit crazy and the heat is quite literally getting to everyone's heads. When the weather is hot, I find people are always easily frustrated or things just never go to plan. For example, I've been trying to write an essay for this internal essay competition within my school and I have had such a bad writer's block that I have rewritten the first paragraph at least four times and haven't been able to think ahead of it. On top of that, it's on a philosophy topic which I know a lot about, yet, I seem to be unable to find the right words to express myself. I blamed everything on the hot weather, just as I blamed all the other bad things going on in my life at the moment on and as someone who has a really strong connection with nature, I really felt like I resonated with what plants go through when there is a lack of rain and too much sun. It sounds weird but aren't we all a bit weird?

Now, I am no scientist, if anything, I'm the furthest thing from a scientist. However, I do know that if plants get too much heat and little water, they die. I guess I could use this as an allegory for humans. We could really compare it to anything in life because too much of one thing and too little of another can kill you but in this case I guess I'm going to assume this 'death' is more of a state of mind. A state of mind where there is no movement and a lack of being. Words can't really describe what I'm trying to explain which is kind of pointless seeing as I'm writing a blog but I think everyone will go through this stage at some point in their life. A stage where you're confused and feel a bit detached from the world but after this stage is when you realise that life is what you make it. This went a bit off topic but consider the sun as the world and the rain as spirituality. By spirituality, I don't mean things like becoming a Shaman (although if that's for you then that's amazing) I just mean indulging in activities with help align and ground you, activities which give you a moment to be still amidst the busyness of this society that we have created. 

Like the hopeless romantic I am, the minute I felt that the sun had calmed down and been covered with the clouds, I ran to my back garden and lied down in the middle of it. My garden is quite big so I loved it, but, my neighbours must have had some interesting things to say about it. Honestly it was the most grounding experience I had felt for a while. I think I have definitely had too much sun, physically and metaphorically, and when I started to feel the first few drops of rain, it felt like the rain was oxygen and I was gasping for air. It sounds really dramatic but when you've been too immersed in the world and not as focused on your spiritual development, it's easy to lose your sense of self. Sometimes, the smallest of things can help you restore what you thought was unachievable. 

That's why I think that the phrase 'there is always sun after the rain' should be changed to 'there is always rain after the sun' for without the rain, we would all be parched, leaving us unable to find ourselves.

I hope you enjoyed this week's post!! I was originally going to write a book review on what I'm currently reading, however, the way I felt when I could feel all the grass around me when I lied in my garden really seemed to strike inspiration within me and somehow also unblocked my writer's block. I hope you all have a great day and even better week ahead, see you soon, love you guys <33