Why My Mood Is Like Our Weather: Sunny, Cloudy, and Suddenly Cyclone
If you’ve ever woken up feeling fresh, positive, and ready to conquer the world… only to suddenly feel irritable, sensitive, overwhelmed, or “done with life” by lunchtime, congratulations. Your mood officially functions like Indian weather - sunny, cloudy, and suddenly cyclone. And honestly, who can blame us? With the world spinning at full speed, climate acting up, and life serving plot twists like a daily soap, our emotional atmosphere is simply keeping up.
We’re living in times where Delhi can be freezing at sunrise and scorching by noon, Bangalore can have sunshine and a thunderstorm within 15 minutes, and Mumbai can go from breezy romance to full-blown disaster movie overnight. In a way, our minds have started mirroring the same unpredictability.
Some days we wake up feeling like a warm summer morning - energised, hopeful, emotionally clear. Then a small comment, an unexpected delay, or a random spiral in our head forms a mental cloud. And without any warning, a cyclone of overthinking hits, complete with lightning flashes of irritation and internal thunderstorms of “Why am I like this?”
Why Our Mood Feels So Unpredictable Today
Psychologically, our mood changes are heavily influenced by overstimulation, the constant noise, information overload, emotional labour, and unprocessed stress that modern life demands. With our brains juggling work worries, relationship dynamics, family pressure, personal goals, social comparisons, and the “log kya kahenge” cloud floating above at all times, even a small shift can create emotional turbulence.
And just like the climate, our internal weather patterns are reacting to years of emotional build-up, stress cycles, and lifestyle changes that we never got a manual for.
A Story We All Know Too Well
Take Sheetal, a 26-year-old working professional in Chennai. One Sunday morning, she woke up the way we all wish to, A good playlist, good chai, bright sunlight, and even the motivation to fold laundry. She felt sunny, like a perfectly pleasant February afternoon.
Then, around noon, her friend casually asked, “Hey, did you lose weight or gain weight? Can’t tell.” Clouds formed. By evening, her boss sent a “Need this by tomorrow morning” Sunday-night message. Thunder began rumbling. And at night, her mom’s “When are you planning to settle down?” comment triggered a full Category 5 emotional cyclone. Every insecurity - career, body image, decisions, future, came swirling with dramatic background music.
Nothing drastic happened. Just tiny, everyday moments. But when your emotional climate is already running warmer than usual, even small winds can turn into storms. Sheetal didn’t break down because she was weak; she broke down because she was tired. And sometimes, tiredness disguises itself as mood swings.
Understanding Our Internal Weather System
Our emotions react quickly, far quicker than our logical mind. When stress hormones rise, the brain shifts into survival mode. One inconvenient event feels like a crisis. One misunderstood message feels like rejection. One unplanned change feels like failure.
The weather outside may be unpredictable, but at least you can check the forecast. The weather inside? Not so easy.
But the good news is: internal climates can be understood, softened, and navigated.
Gently Balancing the Emotional Weather
Instead of forcing yourself to “stay calm,” it’s kinder to create small emotional umbrellas for your daily life.
- Learn your triggers the way you learn the season changes.
- Give yourself permission to feel off without guilt - clouds are natural.
- Practise grounding rituals: a walk, a song, a break from your phone, breathing, or just sitting quietly for two minutes.
- Lean on humour - if you can laugh at your spiral even a little, the cyclone weakens.
- Tell yourself, “This feeling is a weather pattern, not my identity.”
The goal isn’t to eliminate emotional weather; it’s to carry a stable roof above your head.
Ending on a Warm Note
At the end of the day, being “Indian weather inside a human body” simply means you’re alive, sensitive, responsive, and navigating a fast-changing world the best you can. Some days will be sunny, some cloudy, some chaotic, but all of them belong to you.
And truly, there’s beauty even in the unpredictability. After all, even the cyclone passes, and the sun always finds its way back.
Written By : R. Sagarikaa, Editorial Head
This felt very relatable to me. Some days I wake up super happy and energetic .full sandhoshama…….very happy mood and some days I just feel dull and low, without any clear reason. I used to think , yen ippadi feel aagudhu? Reading this made me understand that moods changing is normal, just like the weather. It’s okay to have both sunny days and cloudy days in life. Thanks for explaining this in such a simple and comforting way.
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