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[sukrut]

For someone who has lived in Bombay her entire life, monsoon is pretty special for me. I think monsoon is what makes the city special and beautiful. It gives the city its identity. It romanticises the city in a way, we find it quite hard to leave it.

But also like pretty much everything else, it has its cons as well. For most of them monsoon is an exhausting and tiring inconvenience. An excuse for us to get rejected by the rikshaw drivers. But I get it I mean its hard to hustle and travel in this chaotic city afterall and rain can make it worse.

But I guess we can still find some ways to enjoy it. I think every single person has their own way to enjoy it. Right from those little cute but not so cute kids who love to play and jump around in those puddles with their friends or those new couples who love to walk around at marine drives, share an umbrella and talk about their future. Or maybe those couples in their 40s who are just tired of their monotonous schedules but can’t wait to go home to their partner, sit in the balcony, have a cup of tea and talk about their day. Or those old couples who are diagnosed by several problems which doesn’t let them consume oily stuff, but can’t help themselves having kaanda bhaji at 4 in the evening. Or those group of friends who take out their car and drive to Lonavala as soon as it starts raining.

Maybe people don’t love the season as much as they love spending time with the person they love and thats what makes people love monsoon. Thats what makes it so special.

[sukrut]

 Those mornings when you open your eyes, lying on your bed to see your white curtains with a yellowish tinge of sunshine, creating a shadow of the window grill on the walls of your bedroom, and as soon as you get up, the morning light hits you and makes you smile. Those tired steps after getting off your bed, making breakfast while dancing in the kitchen, having pancakes and a cup of coffee in your balcony while watching friends on repeat, taking a picture of your coffee to post it on the internet. Surfing your instagram on the toilet, taking a shower with those tiny droplets of water dripping from the tip of your hair, putting on your  bathrobe and drying your hair while having a silly little concert. These are pretty much the only things that makes me want to get up, that makes me want to start my day with a smile.