Rainy days.

Do you ever just find yourself so unable to do anything? Just filled with the feeling of blah. It’s almost as if your experiencing an emotional rainy day.

As I’ve gotten older and the world has gotten crazier I find myself looking forward to a rainy day, especially if I don’t have anything planned or scheduled to work that day.

I mean it’s as if I need to slow down and do nothing. Sometimes I can’t tell if it’s a normal feeling or if I need to have my hormones checked. I am at that middle aged mark and hormonal balance is a tricky thing to maintain.

With my job as an Air traffic controller, weather has a direct impact on how my day will be. When it’s beautiful out, I will be super busy and the planes do fly. When it’s a rainy overcast day it slows down tremendously. A few years ago, the springtime weather had been perfect for flying and after several weeks of heavy air traffic I laughed and told my co- worker ” we sure could use a rain day”. We were mentally exhausted and just needed a break. I do wonder sometimes if all these years of working this job with its ups and downs have conditioned me to mentally slow down when the weather turns bad. I’ve also been trained as a weather observer and my husband tells me I’m the only person he knows who walks outside whenever a storm is approaching. As if I can’t let it pass by without a good look see.

So here I sit at home and it’s raining outside. I’m doing nothing and unable to motivate myself to do anything else. I do have plenty to keep me busy, there’s always something to be cleaned or an errand to run. I also have my home based business I could be working on but all I can do is just sit under my pergola listening to the rain and I’m honestly enjoying the down time.

If you find yourself feeling blah and your life has made so many demands on you, don’t be afraid to take advantage on the next rainy day that comes along. You need to acknowledge the mental and physical exhaustion that can overwhelm us all. Once you let yourself relax and listen to the music of the rain as it falls from the clouds and listen to the winds as they whisper or even roar through the trees and leaves, you may find your inner peace again.

I know we all have personal struggles and sometimes we get caught up in the storms of life but do be careful not to let yourself stay out in the rain too long. We need the healing rays of sunshine too.

As with weather forecasting, who can truly predict the many changes in our daily lives because I just don’t know.