Pune had a horrible summer this year (I guess like most cities). It was too hot, so much so that it was almost unlike Pune weather. We continuously needed an air conditioner everywhere, didn’t feel like stepping out of the home/ office in the day, felt like having only cold stuff, and felt lethargic to do anything during the afternoons. We just kept praying to rains Gods to come soon!
Come 23rd June 2026, and the rains finally poured down! Looking at the rains, one couldn’t help but feel like a lover, saying, “I was waiting for your since so long. What took you so long to arrive, my honey!”
The moment the rain burst was over, which lasted for about 2 hours, I stepped out for a meeting. But the traffic was crazy – there were vehicles all over, people trying to squeeze in their vehicles in smallest of gap available, civic sense was nowhere to be seen, and water was clogged all around. “Uff, I felt!” As I reached home to heave a sigh of relief, the mosquitos came buzzing in the ear! I immediately thought, “I don’t like rainy season at all. So many discomforting things happen.”
I bit my tongue – when it was summer, I wanted rains. Now that the rains have arrived, I seem to have a complain about it too. Is it that – whatever is the situation, I want to find something/ someone not right and complain?
Look at the irony of we humans – we seem to have become unsatisfied souls. Whatever we have, we still end up raising some or the other issues. When we meet friends, the hot topic always seems to be a complain about something or someone. At times the issue is not even relevant to us. Yet, we seem to find joy and satisfaction in complaining.
We can really be creative and repetitive about our complains. They can be about – spouse, parents, in-laws, children, cousins, relatives, friends, boss/ managers, country, fellow countrymen, police, laws, ministers, business ethics, non-cleanliness, missing etiquettes, people being loud, traffic sense, quality of roads, high tolls, professional capabilities, salaries, food in tiffin, media agency, news broadcasted, and so much more.
I learnt to be little more alert from this day. Yes, there are many things around me, which will not be or work the way I would love them to be. I might not appreciate them at all. But we also need to think – are we perfect? Do our loved ones also have some complain about us? I am sure they do. If we are not perfect, how can we expect others to fulfill our expectations completely.
I have decided – Instead of saying, “I don’t like rains”, I would rather say, “The nature really blooms in monsoons!”
