It was raining really hard today here in melbourne. Just got me thinking about the summer rains back home and the way ppl used to enjoy them. Even the ladies would have fun and then some khala or phuphoo would be good enough to treat everone with hot tea and pakoray.
I remember last semester I had hard time explaining it to an Aussie friend. He just wasnt able to grasp then concept of running around in the rain just for the heck of it. I sometimes wonder if these ppl know what they are missing!
Sitting in cool offices the whole day and then traveling in their AC cars, the westners have not experienced the heat as we Pakis do in Pakistan! So they don't consider a cool shower from the Almighty as a blessing but just something a part of the ecological system.
Most people here laugh at me when I go out walking in the rain. They are worried about getting a cold, ruining their precious clothes, hurting their bare foot ... etc.
Walk barefoot on the grass one early morning!!! It feels even more divine.
p.s: Pakoray/Chayay in Barsat, kia ya'ad karaya haiN who---me. :-(
hmm Who-me, Ahmadjee,
I think these guys (Westerners i mean) do enjoy rain as much as ‘we’ do.
Travelling in Ac-ed cars or not, I think we all enjoy it. Umm reflect on it in a spirtual way almost. Cuz I think no matter what way it is .. almost any person relates to what rain brings. Almost like liberating the soul bla bla
Never thought it would’ve been an ethnic issue?
yea i always figured rain was a universal feeling..
anyway, here's ma fav song on the pour. hope it furthens to what was said on it being "soul liberating" hehe. enjoy.
*I feel it, it's coming
Rain, feel it on my finger tips
Hear it on my window pane
..Rain, wash away my sorrow
Take away my pain
..Rain is what this thunder brings
For the first time I can hear my heart sing
Call me a fool but I know I'm not
I'm gonna stand out here on the mountain top
Till I feel your rain
..Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say, never go away
..Rain is what the thunder brings
For the first time I can hear my heart sing
Call me a fool but I know I'm not
I'm gonna stand out here on the mountain top
Till I feel your
Rain, I feel it, it's coming*
{M. Ciccone and Shep Pettibone}
'Nuff said!!
[This message has been edited by aphrodite (edited June 14, 2001).]
Thanks for telling me Admad Bhai I think ill roll my eyes now
Kohal it isnt an ethnic issue.... I was just pondering on the fact that other cultures usually dont enjoy it the WAY we do. I sitting under the porch drinking tea with biscuits is fine. I am sure everyone has done it. But taking a shower in tyhe rain and running around (slipping and falling) has its own fun value. I am yet to see a westner do that. I mean literally stepping into the rain with the aim to get wet! I wonder if foreign grown paki kids do it... Do they?
Growing up in Sindh, rain was always cherished and very much looked forward to. I remember everyone praying for the rain, and giving food in the name of Allah, so rain would be granted.
When it finally rained, it rained hard. Har taraf jal thal hota tha. Sometimes, even close to flooding. But nonetheless, it never stopped us kids from enjoying it fully. I remember the pakwaans, the aunties, the uncles, the bazurgs. It was celebrated as if it were the holidays. I remember our 'vaira' in the house. At that time the 'vaira' looked like a huge football field in which it was so much fun to chase each other in the rain. I remember the running behind the trees, and the 'peeng' on the tree :) Uff, i could go on forever describing this, but i better stop now :)
And I have a few BBCD (hate to use the term) cuzes, and when the first saw us they had this oh-how-uncivilized! look on their faces :-D. So I was just wondering.
khair, ahmadjee - understood.
But maybe the only reason I was able to see what I had seen with 'em having fun in the rain is cuz .. well, I’d hang out with them. Else I wouldn’t really be umm aware of what they’d be up to.
I’ve never recalled anyone making a making a face if i’d tell 'em…we’d play out in the rain. Where they’d think: my god she’s a freak!
*“Labaik, Allahumma Labaik, Labaik La Sharika Laka Labaik, Innal Hamda Wa N’amata Laka Wal Mulk, La Sharika Lak.” “Here I am at your service, O Allah, here I am. Here I am at your service and no partners do you have. Verily All Praise and All Bounty belong to you, and Yours alone is The Sovereignty. No partners do you have.”
*
yeah well little kids do.... I am talking a bit grown up ones say in late teens...early 20s.... see Back home abba ji enjoys rain as well ;-) ....
oh well... everyone enjoys it maybe...but I still havent seen any...
Another point to note is that in Pk we have BIG walls and certain amount of privacy among the family (to do silly things). Thats not the case here...yards are open and stuff... thats another factor I guess.
