I strip off all of the baggage and walk into the down pour as the day I was born. I am bare for all of the world to see and I want nothing between me and the down pour. The water falls all around me and it's freezing cold. The mud mires up between my toes but I feel cleansed for the first time in I don't know when. As the lightning flashes and the thunder shakes the earth, I just stand in silence letting the cold water wash over me. I become one with the droplets and feel as if though I could flow away with each one and leave my cares behind. For just this moment, I am cut off from the other world in which I live, as I wrap myself in the rain.