It's raining a bit again today, and it's supposed to rain more over the next few days. Someone at school mentioned the "bad weather," and I immediately thought of the idea that there really is no such thing. Weather is weather, and it does what it does each day. We need the rain just as much as we need the sunshine and the wind and the snow, so it's difficult to see what kind of weather can be "bad." It may not be the kind of weather that we prefer, or it may be weather that prevents us from doing something that we want to do, but that doesn't make it "bad." It simply is what it is, and over the years I've learned to see all kinds of weather for the beauty they hold. Cold dark rainy days are great for sitting inside and reading and drinking hot chocolate or tea; hot and humid days are also good days for finding shelter and staying there with a good book or movie. I may not be able to go running if a freezing rain is falling (though I have done so at times), but I sure can enjoy being cozy and warm in my home. I think that pretty much anything that we judge to be one thing or another is simply what it is, and not what we judge it to be--our judgement does more to shape our perception and determine our personal level of satisfaction or happiness than does the thing that we're judging. Yes, tornadoes can be destructive and even lethal, but they're part of the world we live in and they have a certain powerful beauty that really is undeniable. Weather is weather, and whatever word we put before it is simply judgement. Perhaps it's time to stop judging and start accepting, and see where that leads us.
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