today was a rainy day. i came out of East Campus with an umbrella and opened it as soon as i stepped outside. i looked around and noticed that some people had umbrellas open and some had them down. i looked for puddles to see how hard it was raining and realized it was barely drizzling, so i put mine down, too. and then i began to feel my shoulders getting wet and realized that it was raining hard again, so i had to open my umbrella.

i find it funny when sometimes, i forget to pay attention to anyone else walking by and have my umbrella opened only to realize much later that it had stopped raining a while before. sometimes the mind wanders and forgets what it’s doing, especially when it doesn’t look elsewhere for guidance. but maybe the mind anticipated the sun coming out and wanted to provide itself with shade.