No Umbrellas

I have always loved the rain and you won't see me carry an umbrella.

For one, umbrellas are added weight. Weather here is unpredictable and I hate not knowing when I can use it. Umbrellas cannot stop the rain, it protects you from the rain. But I love the rain so much, most of the time, I don't want to protect myself. 

When it rains, I tend to walk slower, and just let the rain seep in. Well, if it's raining and you run, you get wet anyway. So, might as well enjoy the rain!

Without rain, nothing will grow. 

If nothing will grow, life stops. Life is stagnant. It is but just a static disdain. 

Same goes with life, I guess. 

You say, if it rains, it pours. 

Then maybe, we should try to stop from running or stop from holding on to our umbrellas and just appreciate those little drops. Take a look around at how it benefits you in the end. It may ruin your clothes or whatever but those are just temporary. Life all around is blooming because of those drops. 

And now that life has given us storms and hurricanes, I am proud to claim that Lito and I are growing leaps and bounds. I can see it in the way we see things, in the way we view people, in our perspectives, in the way we take care of each other, in the things we appreciate, in the things we ask, in the things we thank for, in the way we pray... 

It was and still is a stormy ride, but we thank God for the storms. And with these storms, we choose to let go of our umbrellas (protection of our fears, insecurities, anger, negativities). We choose to dance in the rain, and we choose to grow.