No. 9
Rain is free therapy.
A rainy day is a small gift. Find a roof, and just listen.
rain taps on the window, and I listen for free
Rain ruins plans. Laundry won't dry. Your shoes get soaked. It's easy to count only the downsides. But there's one thing about rain that's secretly a luxury: the sound it makes.
Rain hitting a roof or a window is close to white noise, and your brain finds it genuinely calming. Apps charge real money to stream loops of it. On a rainy day, that exact sound is on, for free, all day.
If it's raining where you are, lucky you. Make a coffee or tea, sit somewhere near a window, and do nothing for five minutes. Rainy-day quiet is something you can only collect on rainy days. May as well take some.
Try this today
- Open a window for five minutes and listen to the rain
- Make coffee or tea, drink it by the window
- Record a few seconds of rain to play back later
