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VIDEO: Himatsubushi-hen | TIP 6: Why I like Rainy Days
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It's not that I hate sunny days or anything.
When every day is the same, unchanging, sunny weather, however, anybody would long for a rain cloud or two.
If it's simply clear skies for a week, a month, a year--anybody would long for a rain cloud or two.
The weather specialist said that they had carefully scrutinized a large quantity of past data, so it wouldn't be so likely for the forecast to be wrong. I knew as much.
...But even then, there was occasionally a day where I was hoping that it would be wrong, as I stared up into the clear blue sky.
Was I being mischievous in hoping so?
If you could die from that suffocating feeling... then the population of Earth probably wouldn't have increased to this point.
In other words... the only person who was being suffocated by this was me.
And so...
I welcomed the summer evenings where not even the weather forecast could predict a sudden shower.
If I were to explain it like this, would you understand a bit more about how I feel?
But, when you're called down to the dinner table, what was waiting for you was instead an eggplant and bell pepper stirfry.
This is just on your mother's whim, by the way.
I would be delighted by such whimsy. I don't really like eggplants or bell peppers, but still, I would be delighted.
The fact that the pre-established routine of curry rice had been broken would be amusing.
If tonight was repeated a hundred times, and a hundred times you had to eat curry rice...
Yet for just this one night, that was changed to an eggplant and bell pepper stirfry, there's no way you couldn't enjoy that chance happening.
I hate pre-established routines.
I really hate when things are all decided beforehand.
I have no love for boredom.
I always get my hopes up that something today will be different from yesterday, no matter how trivial.
The weather forecast decided upon it, so the God of Weather must also feel obliged to do so.
But who's to say that a rain cloud might not just show up one day on a whim?...It's something that nobody can say for sure, but because that thought remains in this world, a creature such as myself can continue living without being suffocated.
Tomorrow will probably a hot and clear day.
However, I'm the only one that knows that predetermined fate, even with but a slim 1% chance... sometimes changes.
Teruteruboozu are usually hung to chase away rain. Hanging it upside-down has the opposite effect.
In the end, I spend my days waiting for those unexpected things in life to happen.
I pondered why I was hoping for it...
Why was I hoping for a rain cloud?
...The answer was simple. I've had my fill of clear skies.
Then why was I hoping for a rain cloud?...The answer was simple. The fact that it was going to be sunny tomorrow was boring.
So why was I hoping for a rain cloud?
Basically, it was just that the rain would water my heart, which was withered from boredom.
That's why rather than a TV drama where the plot's already been decided...
...I prefer to look up at the sky.