Back in my late teens or early 20 I guess it was I was not in a good mood. It was late, maybe 10:30-11:00 pm and I was at my parents house and I needed cigarettes & while I could've driven for some reason I decided to walk to a party store about 6 blocks past my former high school. I guess I'd call it a mile away, anyway I walked there got smokes and headed for home. I'd walked past the high school, and made a left and then a right. About half way home. That's when I felt a big rain drop hit me and then a cpl more....Almost instantly it was pouring heavy rain! I initially started running but soon realized it was fruitless. So I just walked and got drenched as if I went swimming in all my clothes. Somewhere, somehow I lost my anger and even my bad mood and by the time I walked into our driveway I remember that I was suddenly in a Great Mood !
Since then I have walked in a good downpour because' I was in a mood in that I knew a good soaking rain would at the very least calm me down! Something about being in a soaking heavy rain can be very relaxing, kind of like just letting things be. Could it be that I just like being wet? Perhaps but from that first soaking experience I realized the healing powers of a good walk in the rain. Seems I've been trying to replicate that ever since. Which to me isn't a bad thing as it truly can heal' tension, anxiety or anger it doesn't matter. Even if it is just a person's desire to simply get wet it can be a joyous experience, that is unless we're talking thunderstorms! Then (to me) it's a frightening experience.