Day 53
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| Kissing in the Rain |
My early childhood days were in India which is also a monsoon
country. According to the book “Chasing the Monsoon by Alexander Frater” the
highest rainfall happens in Cherrapunji, India. This country associates romance
with rain, and the Indian cinema that has the maximum film output in the world
supports the theme of “Rain and Romance” in the movies. Many of the classic
poetry, cinema, songs, pictures, and many more literature in the world
associates the concept of “romance and rain” together. Simultaneously rain is
companioned with lightening, thunderstorms, tornados, floods that have brought
many disasters in the world causing many death and grievances.
So here is my question: Do you associate rain with
romance or disaster?
The question incorporates elements of two different
extremes, and the answer would include a biased persuasion from the contributor.
Do you think the answer of the question will be influenced by the age group of
the contributor? Do you think the answer of the question will be influenced by
the gender of the contributor? What do you think the ratio of the answer will
outcome? What percentage of influence does media and literature incorporate in
answering this question?
I guess the idea of rain and romance is incorporated
because rain directly or indirectly stimulates our senses. The smell of the
ground after the first rain (smell), a wet exposure included with potential rainbow
sightings (vision), getting wet in the rain (touch), a cooler weather (feel), and
taste of raindrops (taste). Ironically just not for humans but rain correlates
to mating seasons for many of the species.
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| Hurricane |
On the contrary to the idea of romance, recently
United States faced the downfall of rain in the form of hurricane Katrina, and hurricane
Irene. The hurricanes caused a death ratio of approximately 2000 lives,
thousands of injuries, over 100 billion dollars in damages, and high homeless
ratio. People had to leave their homes and causing an impact of being stranded.
“Rain
the million droplets falling from the sky can play both the roles of the creator
and the destructor”
~Lenji Jacob
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