Wednesday Wellness: Rain that Wasn’t Yours

Slothy was curled under a leaf, watching the sky shift. Delfino floated quietly below, letting gentle ripples rock his back fin.

Delfino: “Funny, isn’t it? How sometimes the weather outside feels like the weather inside.”

Slothy: “Yeah. Even when it’s not your storm.”

Delfino: “That’s the thing. Today I feel heavy—but nothing’s happened to me. Not directly.”

Slothy: “Maybe it happened around you. And your heart just… caught the rain.”

Delfino: “Like secondhand sadness?”

Slothy: “Exactly. Sometimes we absorb the grief in a friend’s voice, or the loneliness of a room, or the stress sitting silently next to us.”

Delfino: “I thought I was being too sensitive.”

Slothy: “Sensitivity isn’t a flaw. It’s a radar. It means your heart listens before your head catches up.”

Delfino: “But I don’t know what to do with the weight.”

Slothy: “Acknowledge it. You don’t have to trace every drop to its cloud. Just admit it’s raining—and let yourself dry slow.”

Delfino: “I wish people knew how often we carry weather that’s not ours.”

Slothy: “That’s why we talk. So the storm doesn’t stay trapped inside.”

🌟 A Message from Soulamore:

Not all heaviness has a clear reason. Sometimes, we wake up under clouds we didn’t invite. Sometimes, we’re just carrying someone else’s rain—a sadness that lingered in the hallway, or a tension that clung to a conversation.

You don’t need to justify every feeling to be allowed to feel it. And you don’t need to understand the storm to let someone walk beside you through it.

Let’s normalize asking: “Do you feel heavy today, even if you don’t know why?”

🌧️ Drop those unspoken clouds in the Confession Box 💬 Or name them gently with someone from Our Peers

Because some days, we all carry quiet weather.