The worst days of summer are the rainy ones. We spend all year looking forward to nice weather and long hot days. All of winter, with its drary gray days and bitter cold, we dream of those endless days at the beach, laying on the sand and soaking in the bright and buming sun. And then, summer comes, and it rains. as a child I would wake up to rainy summer days and come close to crying. It was not fair. we suffered through months of school and miserable weather for those scant tan weeks of freedom and balny weather.Any day that I could not spend at the beach or playing ball with my friends seemed like a punishment for sometihing I did not even do. On those rainy summer days, I had nothing fun to do and could only sit inside, staring out at the rain like a Dickensian orphan. I was an only child. so there was no one else to play with. My father worked from home, so Iwas not truly alone, buit he could not actively play with me since he was tachnically at work. It was those days that Iwould resing myself to whataver was on televisiion or any book that I could find lying around. I do crawl through the day and pray each night that the rain would not be there the next day. As an adult, though, my opinion of summer rain hos changed. When you have to work every day, summer is not as eagerly anticipate. Mostly, the days run together, bleeding into each so that they no longer seem like separate entities and instead feel like continuations of the same long day. Everything seems monotonous and dull, and an ennui or listlessness kicks in. such a mindset makes you cheer for anything new or differrent. I spend the winter dreaming of summer and summer dreaming of winter. When summer comes, I complain about how hot it is. And then Ilook forward to the rain, because the rain brings with it a cold front, which offers a reprieve admittedly one that is all too short--from the torture of 100 and humid days. Rainy days are still the worst days of the summer, but summer rain today means poitively beautiful--and considerably cooler--weather tomorrow.