Quarantine Diaries Norway VI -
Midnight Sun

QDN 6 - Midnight Sun

It’s 5:30 in the morning and for some strange reason I woke up. How I miss the window blinds! Light seeps into the curtains. I can’t see the Sun up out there, but the sky is completely blue. Although it’s not a light blue, it is strong enough to say goodbye to the darkness and start a new today. Seagulls growl, they are hovering above us and now and them, they stop talking each other.

Nobody on the streets, but me at the window. It’s quite early. I’m considering to come back to bed and cuddle my pillow. I laid down on it and with my eyes still narrowed and an insurgent headache, I see my camera from the bed on the desk, among a pile of stacked papers and the cup where I drank the night tea. I get up again and I grab my camera. I was willing to see this midnight Sun, it’s not exactly that phenomenon, but kind of. I would like to think I got to approach it somehow.

I thought about the amount of things that happen out there while we are entertained in other matters. Time does not stop and does not wait for anyone. Perhaps this confinement only teaches us that we lived too fast. Life asks us to slow down and enjoy the journey.

Carla Escribano Pérez