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WEATHER
Do We Fear the Rain?
It has been so long since it rained
A long time has passed, since we last had rainfall in London. The days have been warm and getting hotter. Rain has not been forecasted for a number of months; we have had a few days of light drizzle that ended as swiftly as it arrived. We have the water-hosepipe ban, there is scarcity of rainfall in the country. Across Europe and Britain there have been innumerable forest fires. The land is dry and the grass plays with fire easily like kindling.
It has been so long since we last had rain, so I wonder if we will fear the rain? A good friend we meet after a long time, appears like a stranger and it takes us time to get adjusted to their friendship. We have changed and so have they since the last time we met, will they still know us and will we still be friends? These are a few questions we ask, like when we will finally meet our old friend, the long-anticipated arrival of rains in the land. The blue skies are barren, without any sign of rain-bearing clouds waiting to burst their gifts of rain over the lands.
Does the old man, the young boy and the elderly woman who goes to buy bottles of water, still remember what it feels like to walk in the rain? Will the young child still recall those memories of having played in the rain once and as he jumped into puddles of…
