age and rains

there are some things on my mind:-

1. kids these days look so much more matured than we did when we were their age. and it hasn't been that long. i mean you look at kids seeking admission in DU and those in colleges as well. i guess we [me, my classmates, our juniors, even seniors] looked so very younger as compared to their faces. i guess, when in college we looked like those kids who today look like in 7th, 8th or 9th standards. is it somehow indicative of anything?

2. today i realised i like rains a particular way. i mean i liked them that ways but now i kind of know how to define i like them. i like rains while driving. because inside it is all clean and tidy and still i am so close to rains and on roads or near to the nature and moving too at the same time. you can get them while watching rain at home. but then you feel solitary...