You may want to play the previous video before continuing reading the article. Just to hear the sound. Borges, the famous Argentine writer, said that rain was something that always happens in the past. Perhaps that is enough to give it the philosophical importance it deserves, since such a daily event sometimes forces us to ignore it, but it is enough to watch the rain fall to realize that the drops behave at a melodic rhythm, that sometimes a light breeze it makes it seem non-existent and other times there is no time for philosophy because so much water falls that it forces us to be alert and ensure our safety.
Already in itself, rain is a rare phenomenon. If the atmosphere were always at the same temperature, if the celestial plane behaved uniformly forever, we would never have rain, snow, or anything like that. It is our changing geography that allows for rain and therefore has given way to the creation of life on almost the entire planet.
The rain encourages reflection, memory. Sometimes it falls full of nostalgia and its effect on the skin takes us back to complicated times, but for some reason they never leave us completely. Those moments that mark us forever and determine who we are. The rain has that power to make us live the past almost tangibly.
Today the rain is being relegated to an external event, which forces us to take shelter, but not like before, when we only had to get away from it so as not to get wet, now it can be harmful, because that atmosphere in which it forms, that peculiarity that it has to exist, it is contaminated by everything we do. Toxic rain, rain that makes us sick and corrodes everything we have, an unnatural rain that we must avoid and that does not promote philosophy.
Such a daily event that raises so much reflection. Let’s take care of the planet to see the rain fall, to be able to remember and miss in peace, to live the past in the present and to share a phenomenon that gave us life and that we so often take for granted without knowing that one day, if we continue like this, the rain can end.