Nature
in Rainy Season
The lines of famous Hindi song, “Vo kagaj ki kashti;
vo varish ka pani……..” (That paper boat, that rainy water) indicates the strong
bonding between innocent childhood and rainy season, Very good
combination of nature and the childhood.
The rainy season brings me back through the memory lane
where I spent my childhood. First time when I was about 5-6 years old, I came
close to the nature through rainy season. Generally nature means the
flora and the fauna present around you. But the forest, river, mountain,
environment, clouds, fountain etc. are the parts of nature. Nature creates a
magic spell that mesmerized the passer by. She is more charming, fascinating, magnificent
and splendid when she changes her beautiful attire with changing season but her
attire in rainy season hypnotizes. In rainy season, nature looks so
adorable, so charming – beyond words. If you want to experience that, come
closer to the nature in rainy season and feel her breadth with her lush
greenery that spreads in every nook and cranny.
Rain attracts every child and compels him or her to
become wet in its shower. This I can say with my personal experience. And my
first encounter with nature was through rain, the competition by Kissan opens
the door of my childhood memories, where I found myself wet in the rain.
Whenever there was rain, I rushed to the road with my 4-5 friends. The roads in
heavy rain were soon flooded with water and the drains were fully filled with
the rainy water and seemed like small streams. Seeing all that, we always
played our favorite game of floating paper boat on the flooded roads and
drains. At that time I always requested my grand father to make paper boats for
me and for my friends. He did it for me but with a warning not to go far from the
home otherwise he wouldn’t make paper boat next time. It always happened, we
forgot his warning and he made paper boat for us. As we floated our boats on
the roads or on the drains, we ran after and chased the boats and tried to find
out, whose boat’s came first. Sometimes some boat turned upside down and
submerged in the water, we again took the new paper boat and started floating
on the water. The water of the drain carrying the huge amount of water in heavy
rain was fallen into the main hole. So our boats were disappeared or smashed in
the whirlpool of the main hole that was formed by the huge rain water. We
looked down in the main hole hoping that we any boat could be seen but it
hadn’t happened. So we returned back to hour home in despair.
One of my favorite games with the rain was jumping in the
flooded road. My friends and I were jumped on the road that filled in the rain
water and our feet were merged in that water. Whenever we jumped a sound was created.
That sound was heard like ‘chhapak’. For enjoying that sound we tried to jump higher
and higher. Continuous jumping in the water was created a musical note of the
“chhapak” sound (if somebody wants the proof just go on doing this). And as we
jumped in the water, the water splattered all around our feet and it wet our
whole body. We were totally wet but we didn’t care whether we were beaten or
chided by mom or any other family member.
Mostly rainy season turns into the season of mischief and
amusement for the children, in my childhood I enjoyed rain splashed down on the
roads, we tried to catch the water droplets that were fallen down. Sometimes we
opened our mouth to catch the rain water into our mouth and we had a
competition for that exercise.
Rain was the first introduction of nature to me. I learn
a lot from nature through the rain. I learn to save water. My mother told that
water is precious and essential for life and Nature gives that gift in the form
of rain. But we as a human being don’t taking care for it and wasting the water
very cruelly. Nature taught me to save the plants because I still remember that
my mother had a small garden. She loved the plants and sometimes she switched
on the tape of some songs to the plants. When I asked him for that, she told me
that plants have life and they also feel pain, happiness etc. I learn the
lesson that plants are the prominent part of nature and rainy season is the
king of all season because the nature and all life form are handicapped without
this season. We can’t imagine our life without water, Oxygen and food, these
all come from the nature. Just come close to the nature and try to hear her
silence- she has a very lovely and unforgettable song of life.
nice :)
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