Sudden summer rain

Sad is the first time you run to seek shelter from a sudden summer rain, for it marks the day you leave your childhood and enter the unnatural world of Grown-Ups. We excite ourselves about making this transition, and once we have, we strive for years to wedge ourselves more deeply into the narrowing ductwork of adulthood, until with luck we squeeze through the last few twists of it, and uncork ourselves where that same rain lights up our eyes. We run into it, drenched and home again.