Esdwin Lopez
4 min readApr 23, 2021

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Ever wonder how relaxing it feels while you are driving during a nice calming day, involving a usual 60% of rain shower including a few thunder roars here and there? Your holding that steering wheel while pressing onto your brake pedals when necessary, meanwhile the rain shower droplets are hitting against your vehicle’s front glass window giving you that sweet soothing sound as your traveling to your next destination safely. Of course, speaking safety you mustn’t become obsess to this pleasure you have for when there are other drivers on the way unless it’s on a highway… However that doesn’t seem to interrupt for how much I love driving accompanied by a rainy day on our latest local weather forecast; as told by our meteorologists. It’s certainly strange how such types of weather conditions can somehow work their way to play with our moods though. What I’m trying to say here is, sunny days are meant to uplift a person’s mood while a rainy afternoon is the icon for someone who is having a gloomy energy. Allow me to explain my personal opinion through different types of weather conditions.

Sunny Weather

Wednesday morning arrives right? I jump out of my bed preparing a nice cup of coffee to pump up my energy & ki ready to blast off to work. Minutes later I visualize the sky and notice the sun shining on me spiritually speaking to me, “Hey, it’s going to be okay! I’m here to lighten up your mood with a nice blue sky and a few clouds to float you around your Wednesday!” The sun gives me that sort of feeling when I am heading out there fighting for another successful achievement.

Rainy Weather

Comes the next morning; Thursday of April the 22nd. Same routine, I get out of my bed setting up a nice warm green tea latte to loosen my early grumpiness. As I walk out of my entrance door I then see rain shower taking action. Some of my coworkers will think and guess that I will have a gloomy Thursday due to the rain showers darkening our humongous sky right? However, that’s never the case to me. Currently when it is raining I tend to feel a great amount of comfort. The sound of each drop kissing nature’s floor seems to purify my mood teamworking with me as I’m working on my office computer while I look out my window and glance at the cloudy sky.

Weather in general is one of the biggest things that walks with us in our lives. Despite life threatening risks of ongoing tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, etc., it will always be beside our everyday lives. All you have to do is look up at the sky and think to yourself, “Huh, everytime I either drive, walk, or simply view out my window, the weather is forever going to be here existing while we exist.” I may sound a bit silly considering weather this way, however I love to think about it like that! I’d like to tell a little story about my childhood at the time I was 10 years old. I was the type of kiddo who loved to play outside with the rain joining my siblings as we all dash around the stormy showers hitting us every second. At one point I once looked up locking my eyes with the sky, like as if mother nature and I were greeting each other, then I felt this emotion speaking to myself, “I’m a youngling, and I know I have plenty more years to come… Enjoy it man!” When I storytell this little moment to anyone, I mean to say that once you lock your eyes with the sky, you tell yourself that life is worth living, and that you are here for a reason. That is one of the biggest reasons why I explain to many people that rainy showers hand out soothing vibes. The Earth is a magical place besides knowing what reality has really become after this pandemic stroke hard at us human beings, although we continue to live our lives paying bills managing our financing while we work hard on a regular basis. It can be frightening at times if we overthink about these kinds of situations deeply, However we somehow manage to overcome every thought that arrives in our minds. I will forever consider rain a way to soothe our day from beginning to the end; heck I won’t mind if it rains everyday! Haha just joking, the weather is like our emotions, one day we will have a smile on our faces while we have a mocha on our hands then comes a grumpy Friday when we stubbed our toe after we have open the door the improper way. Soothing rain is one of mindfulness’ bestfriend, and I take that a big fortunate blessing.

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Esdwin Lopez

Writer about tech, gaming, and mindfulness about our ongoing lives. Also a lover for songwriting & singing.