Petrichor

You know the smell – it’s called petrichor 

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The smell of the first rain mingling with the earth

It connects you with the richness of nature, the freshness of soil, it makes you feel good.

It makes you feel strangely connected with something, you don’t know what.

Or no...

It gives you a cold and headache because you’re one of those people for whom changing weather means blocked nose

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For you, the petrichor is not a sign of anything good

It tells you that things are going to get horrible quite soon

That you will not sleep for the suffering that lies in store

The smell depresses you, it fills you with foreboding

And all that was around a smell.

One smell, two possible feelings

Embedded deep in our memory from a time we don’t even recall

From as far back as we have known

Learned from experience

From a time long past

That's our mind, the nature of it, throwing up past experiences with associated feelings

Which brings up a question, can I change the feeling?

Can I reduce the sense of despondency that I have a bad week coming?