It's true and I see it often at the mall as most people "flee for their lives" to shelter as a light drizzle begins to fall... others don't care because they know they're not soluble and nature isn't their enemy.
I can second the suggestion. At some point as a teenager, it was raining out and I felt a strange compulsion to to out and just walk around in it. It was probably only fifteen minutes or so, but I just let it surround me, alone. It was a positive experience that is vivid to me almost two decades later. No real mental aim or purpose to it, either. No revelation. Not the only time I've been thoroughly rained on.
I was cycling once and a solid spring shower came up on me while I was at least a few miles away from my car. So I just kept at it, and it was one of the most memorable of my then daily bike rides. It was thrilling, working out hard with the cold rain falling on me was invigorating, my physical senses were going all over between working out and all the rain hitting me as I was cycling fairly fast through it. Definitely worth being out in a rainstorm sometime and just surrender to the fact you'll get soaked, so you can then just enjoy the moments.
Us motorcyclists have a saying: "Some people ride in the rain. Other people just get wet."
It's true and I see it often at the mall as most people "flee for their lives" to shelter as a light drizzle begins to fall... others don't care because they know they're not soluble and nature isn't their enemy.
I can second the suggestion. At some point as a teenager, it was raining out and I felt a strange compulsion to to out and just walk around in it. It was probably only fifteen minutes or so, but I just let it surround me, alone. It was a positive experience that is vivid to me almost two decades later. No real mental aim or purpose to it, either. No revelation. Not the only time I've been thoroughly rained on.
I was cycling once and a solid spring shower came up on me while I was at least a few miles away from my car. So I just kept at it, and it was one of the most memorable of my then daily bike rides. It was thrilling, working out hard with the cold rain falling on me was invigorating, my physical senses were going all over between working out and all the rain hitting me as I was cycling fairly fast through it. Definitely worth being out in a rainstorm sometime and just surrender to the fact you'll get soaked, so you can then just enjoy the moments.
I had my boots fill up with water when my longjohns were soaked through.