Today I woke up to a fairly cloudy morning following an overnight heavy rainfall here in Beijing. Rain is always welcome as it clears the air and the pollution typically drops to manageable levels to make breathing safe again!
Thinking to myself, a cloudy day in the wake of a heavy rainfall night heralds more rain, definitely good news!
Prompts me to think again, how often do we welcome cloudy days?
Do we ever have songs or poems about cloudy days?
On the contrary, in our minds we associate cloudy days with gloomy feelings. Cloudy implies somber, overcast, dismal, dull, mucky, etc. all having negative connotations.
My mind races again and prompts me to think: Apart from my feeling that I and other Beijingers may be happy to wake up to a cloudy day, where else would praiseworthy thoughts be aired about cloudy days? I am sure that under drought conditions and desert living, cloudy days will bring renewed hope of rain and better days ahead.
Let’s balance the above against the impact of waking up to a Sunny day! Perhaps it is a universally agreed upon notion that Sunny implies fine, brilliant, pleasant, radiant, etc. and Sunday is that day off where we are expected to have a “Sunny” day!
In all languages the Sun and Sunny days are praised in many refrains and the examples are too many to list here.
Upon researching clouds and cloudy days in as far as songs and poems of praise are concerned, I found out, as expected, that there are only a few and far between worthy of mention.
Clouds are upset and are sending us the following message:
“How can you say that you are on “cloud nine” when you’re happy, develop advanced computing and call it “cloud computing” and yet continue to associate us with gloom and doom?”!!!!
Remember, every cloud has a silver lining after all!
Hani Badawi,
June 30, 2016
Thinking to myself, a cloudy day in the wake of a heavy rainfall night heralds more rain, definitely good news!
Prompts me to think again, how often do we welcome cloudy days?
Do we ever have songs or poems about cloudy days?
On the contrary, in our minds we associate cloudy days with gloomy feelings. Cloudy implies somber, overcast, dismal, dull, mucky, etc. all having negative connotations.
My mind races again and prompts me to think: Apart from my feeling that I and other Beijingers may be happy to wake up to a cloudy day, where else would praiseworthy thoughts be aired about cloudy days? I am sure that under drought conditions and desert living, cloudy days will bring renewed hope of rain and better days ahead.
Let’s balance the above against the impact of waking up to a Sunny day! Perhaps it is a universally agreed upon notion that Sunny implies fine, brilliant, pleasant, radiant, etc. and Sunday is that day off where we are expected to have a “Sunny” day!
In all languages the Sun and Sunny days are praised in many refrains and the examples are too many to list here.
Upon researching clouds and cloudy days in as far as songs and poems of praise are concerned, I found out, as expected, that there are only a few and far between worthy of mention.
Clouds are upset and are sending us the following message:
“How can you say that you are on “cloud nine” when you’re happy, develop advanced computing and call it “cloud computing” and yet continue to associate us with gloom and doom?”!!!!
Remember, every cloud has a silver lining after all!
Hani Badawi,
June 30, 2016
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