The Power of a Rain Drop

As a child, i never liked my name... my mother told me that it started raining when i was born... rain didn't stop for several days, and that's how i got my name... it means "a cloud that rains heavily and continuously for several days without thunder or lightning"...

I thought it was real stupid to call someone after a "cloud", especially a grey one! it just didn't make sense to me :) but i was always being reminded that there is a rainbow after each rain fall, and that nothing could survive without water...

My name never made sense to me untill a couple of years ago.... i was taking a course in western and japanese technical stock terms, and was introduced to the term "raindrops"... i was amazed by what raindrops could do :)

I never did realize how powerful raindrops can really be untill a few months ago... and am not talking about the power it has in the stocks market :) i found out that every single rain drop represents one of us...

I've always asked myself how much do i, as a person, mean to this world... if i die right now, nearly nothing would change... my family and a couple of friends plus some people might miss me for a while... but the sun would still rise, birds are going to continue singing, kids would go to their schools, and life would continue normally as if nothing happened... in short, i felt like i really mean nothing, that am worthless... and i started asking myself why do i even exist??? just then, another question popped into my mind... how many people do i know whom their death would effect this world much more than mine would??? my answer was "nearly" no body :) does this mean that we all mean nothing??? i had to find a way to explain it...

The answer was simple, it was right infront of my eyes, but i just couldn't see... Rain Drops! when rain falls, the effect of a single rain drop could easily be ignored when compared to the total effect cause by the rest of the rain drops... as a matter of fact, we can ignore the effect of several rain drops, and still get the same result! but we can't ignore them all...

In other words, each single drop made an effect, even if it wasn't noticed... this tiny effect when combined with the tiny effects other raindrops made would result in a noticeable force that can't be ignored... and this force is what makes a change :)

In short, life would have never been exactly the same without you or me... each one of us counts in a way or another :)