is there anybody out there who loves the rain?  i count myself in.

there a lot of downsides to rains:  the floods, the lightning, the traffic, businesses going slow, crops getting devastated, people getting sick, others die.  in fact, for this particular storm, juaning, twenty are already dead and the storm's not even over yet.  my review class got canceled and i had to travel all the way from bataan.  I couldn't sleep on the bus, the highway is slippery and it's hard to nap when u know danger is lurking.  at least if the the bus skids, i could hold on to something.  but still, we'll never know, death comes when it comes.  

i'm a rain person, i love the rain so it's hard to become jubilant or ecstatic when you're aware that many are crowding the evacuation centers, some hungry and cold and sick.  i can imagine little children crying.  there were few houses that were downed by flash floods and the families were not able to save even their clothes (much more all the stuff that they worked hard and saved for).  i never went through any of those but i feel for these people .  i sit here all comfy, warm and dry while they go through these sufferings.  all my ever happy memories of the rain are drowning by what's truly happening in the environment.  it seems normal to hear about flash floods and landslides and one month worth of rain pouring in just a few hours.  this isn't the case years back.

good things don't last.  nothing on earth will last and all the beauty we know, they have deadlines.