雨の日は好きですか？ | Do you like a rainy day?

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雨の日は好きですか？
大好きな人は多くはいないと思う（笑）。

僕は小さい時、雨を待ち焦がれた時分があった。
いつも家にいた訳ではないが、雨の日は僕の父が家に居る事が多かったからだ。

父は、工事現場で働く、圧接・溶接工だった。
屋外の工事現場だから、雨が降ると当然、作業中止でたいていお休みになったのだ。

今となっては、日給でもらっている給料で、給料が出ない雨の日がどれだけ、父にとって負担となっていたのかなと思う。

ランドセルが重くてもわくわくして、雨の日は、父が家に居る事を期待しながら下校した。

大人になって大好きでは無くなったけれど、雨の日も悪くないのである。


Do you like a rainy day?
I don't think there are many people who like it (lol).

When I was small, I longed for a rainy day from time to time.
It was because my dad was at home usually when it rained. Of course, he was sometimes away as well.

My dad was a welder who worked at construction sites.
Because he worked outside, he was usually off when it was a bad weather.

When I think about it, I can now easily imagine how hard it was for my dad not to work for rainy days with receiving wage daily.

In a rainy day, I went home from school with being excited that I might have been able to see my dad at home, no matter how heavy my randoseru I felt.

As I grew up, I don't necessarily like a rainy day, but it isn't that bad sometimes.

(Haiku by me (in the above image, lol) meaning:
Haru no ame
Spring Rain

Kirin no kubi to
Giraffe's (long) neck (means that I am waiting as long as a giraffe's neck)

Tsubomi sakura
buds of cherry blossoms