Still Alive......Dreaming of Daylight

Above: One of many stunning places in Norway

It's eating me up now, chewing slowly prolonging the fever and making me paranoid just thinking of the symptons. Its like you're not invited or welcomed out into the day, every journey is up hill, grit your teeth and try and focus on the destination only. Deprived of light the body simply doesn't function as it should, jet-lagged without the flight, unfocused without the distraction, and tired without the insomnia. It is an effort when you feel broken, but even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, and there's no other way but to get on with it, which is what we all do, then look back and laugh.....hopefully.

I am the man who remembers things, who likes to reminisce and talk about the fine details of events that are long gone, the details that made them special, amusing and memorable. I enjoy the look of wonder and thought on a friends face when these memories are pulled out of the ether and bought back to the forefront of another mind just for a small moment, that's magical. Now in my world of darkness, a world that is still kind of beautiful in an exposed, remote way, I am thinking of times when the air was crystal clear and the days were long and bright. The fjords in Norway was one of those times, a fairytale land that left you open mouthed round every corner, the dramatic landscape both sharp and smooth, shooting out of the ocean and inland lakes. Try and pick a favourite spot or view and you'll spend a lifetime there.