I love rainy days; it recalls my childhood

Rainy day

Prithvi Raj Chauhan
Grade-9, Aksharaa School

Yes, I love rainy days; it recalls my childhood and brings back very special memories for me. However, those memories are such which are closest to my heart. I still remember playing in the rain, jump in the puddles, and sailing a paper boat. I remember my tiny gumboots and Benton printed small umbrella and Spiderman printed raincoat.

When there is heavy rain my mom did not send me to school and I enjoy sitting at home with my granny. Whenever I did not want to go to school I wish that rain could come because did not have to go to school. Whenever rainy days come I missed some of my friends celebrating Ashad 15 in the muddy field. We used to play with mud and do ropain on a rainy days. 

I missed those days when my mom took me out in the rain water because there is a traditional belief that rain water is the medicine for prickly heat.  Another thing sometimes rain would bring hailstone I loved to collect it and keep them in the jar.

My parents were always tired of searching me because I did not inform then because they wouldn’t let me do so. I love to watch the clean sky and rainbow after the rain and feel clean and warm. When I observed the rainy day, I remembered an accident that happened  in the rainy day.

Actually my mom, me and my father were planning to go for shopping but it was raining my father told that we may go when the rain stops finally the rain stopped so we went out of our house. On the way my father’s motor bike slipped in the wet road and I fall down.

Childhood is the time we do not remember days but we remember the moments.

Once I went to my village in Sankhuwasabha in my summer holiday. I observed the real scene of the rice plantation in the huge muddy field. People were working in the field during the rain too. Then I understood the importance of rainy days. They were wearing a ghum made of bamboo and plant leaf that I had not seen before. It was in different sizes so that all kinds of people can wear it.

I heard the melodious song that was only sung during ropain. Whenever it would rain I would watch outside the window taking out my hands-on rain and that was recalled my bygone days and the situation now is, I am holding a cup with hot coffee and there is black cloud everywhere but no rain this is all because of human carelessness nature does not remain the same in some places rainfall even cannot be seen. But I thank lockdown to again take nature and the climate back to their order.

According to the National Climate Datacenter, the wettest place in the world with the highest average amount of yearly rainfall is Lloro, Colombia with a whopping 523.6 inches. In Nepal, Pokhara is the wettest place and Lumle of Pokhara region is the heaviest rainfall place of Nepal.

Rainy day is an essential part of the water cycle; in fact, it is a natural feature of the earth weather system. Rainy days may play a key role in creating the climates of certain areas. Farmers are waiting for rainy days to come; the rainy day is one of the parts of sustainable development, people all over the world harvest rainwater, so let’s make less pollution and think about other and their life save nature for better rainfall.

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