During childhood
days, I had dreamt of hailstone showering. Many children like me might have
waited hailstone in the time of heavy downpour and roaring wind.
That dream developed
through elder’s stories of hailstone showers. Hail stone appeared as a
mysterious thing in bed time stories.
Many
days in the heavy monsoon, I waited impatiently for the dream hails. But it
didn't come. Even the rainbows and rainstorms have come across in between;
the "frozen gift" was not there. When the storm cloud appeared in the blue
sky, I had longed for the hail as pied hornbill waiting for rain.
Each and every rainy
day, I would simply dream for this cold stones. But the dream didn't bear
fruit. Still, my mind would tell me. “One day the heavenly hail would come
to you and that would make you rejoice. The gift of the sky would excite you
for ever. That would lead you to new heights of imagination.”
Surprisingly, I got
the hail here in my hands, not in the land of monsoon wonders, Kerala. I got
it here in the desert land, Qatar with very rare downpours. One afternoon,
last week, we heard the downpour with loud sound. When left out, it was
there the silver frozen pellets in my dream. When taking the small cold
hails in my palm, it was a dream come true for me.
It was seen all the
young and old assembled there filled with rejoice to touch the pellets. It
was a blessing from above; a loving gift of rain God. It sparkled, when the
sunrays entered through its transparent, tiny body. Even it melted within
seconds; the contentment of the experience will remain for ever. Hail stone
showering is an exciting symbol; it is a small wonder of Nature. There was a
special kind of attraction to this downpour while it came at the end of
winter. This is the time desert wind is moving fast to the mood of spring.
Here one has to pray
for a downpour for long time. Once or twice in a year, the rain God favors
this land. So hails’ rhythmic fall made a particular mood in this desert.
Monsoon rain and its beats are nostalgic element of Keralites, staying
outside. The hail stone too excite them greatly.
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By Rajesh
Kumar for CalicutNet.com
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