I have been in an annoying funk for most of the day. Felt like nothing was going to please me today and every little thing was going to piss me off. Why… I bet not even new bottle of nail polish would’ve made a dent in my shitty mood today!
When ‘lo and behold – a fortuitous thunderstorm started rumbling about in the West! Just what I needed! 🙂 I grabbed some old clothes, and decided to gout out for a walk in it. It was absolutely pouring down bucketloads, and the rain was freezing cold to boot. I love the feeling of just standing out in the rain, looking up at the sky with my eyes closed and feeling big rain drops falling on my face. When I was a kid, we used to get caught in the summer thunderstorms on our way home from school all the time. Seems like we had those really humid days that ended in a cooling storm more days than not back then. So now whenever I go walking in a storm, it makes me feel like a kid again. And remarkably, it feels you can just forget all your stresses and bullshit as you get soaked to the bone! 🙂
I stayed out side until I was saturated, and could feel myself getting all goosebumped from the cold rain even though the air temperature was probably still close to 30 degrees! Turned out to be good timing, as it started to hail heavily just after I came back inside. Wandering around in a thunderstorm may not be the safest thing to do but it seems to be strangely therapeutic – well I find it so!
Stage 2 – warm dry clothes and a cuppa!
I feel so much better now! 🙂