Running in the Rain

I was coming out of the library the other night and a man walked by me quickly saying "At least it's not raining too hard, I thought it would be pouring". I replied, "No, this is just a tickle rain...very gentle." I watched him hustle by, crouching over, rushing...as if it were coming down in buckets, repeating "I thought it would be pouring". It was hard not to giggle at the obviousness of the reality that to him it was pouring. His whole body was prepared for being drenched. It's hard to let go of our negative expectations, even when the reality is more to our liking we tend to get stuck on the expectation. We like to be right, and even though it's better that sometimes we're wrong. Let it go. It's just a tickle rain.