A Northern World

Life in the northern parts of the world certainly brings many advantages and disadvantages. First, the bad. Step outside and only by 8:30am will you begin to see the sun rise. This is also if you are lucky. The Scottish weather has a tendency to go from a very gray day into the night, hiding the sunlight for hours on end if not entirely. Then night fall comes at about 3:30, capping such a short day. It feels as if there is no time to get anything done and the day should be over with the falling sun. So it certainly is a readjustment to the whole lifestyle.

But it is one that comes with the most definite of advantages as well. To begin, being so far north, the sun barely caps the horizon, which makes for some of the greatest sunrises and sunsets you will ever see. And in such a picturesque country already, this just makes the incredible that much more amazing. Settled among the green rolling hills the sun shines a bright orange and red bursting arrays of color which are reflected off of the water that is the lifeblood of Scotland. It is as if this was where heaven touched earth. It also shows how the sunlight is such a vital and integral part of life. It makes a deeper and greater appreciation of how the sun is such a powerful force giving energy and life to the world.

This is life in the Northern world, a challenge that makes you earn the uniqueness and amazing days that dawn, but worth every minute of it.