Imagine being able to wake up on Christmas morning and seeing the sunshining, hearing the birds chirping, and not a cloud in the sky. To those of us from the North this only happens in storybooks and in people's imaginations. However those from the South have the opportunity to live this every year. Southerners imagining what it would be like to have a white Christmas is something that is replayed over and over again in Christmas morning cartoons. As a young child I would not be able to imagine what life would be like without a white Christmas. Having a white Christmas asures you that Santa Clause is coming and your presents are under the tree.Snow is something that you appreciate more whne you are younger and have the stamina to play in it, but as you become adults snow just seems to hold you back and is seen as a waste of time.
People are like birds and bugs, as the weather gets cold we too like to migrate for the winter. Just like undomesticated animals we too have a strong desire for warmth and become uncontent with cold weather. As more and more people migrate south, less and less seem to migrate back home for the warm seasons, and so is true for the birds. The North has lost many of its melodious chants from the wonderful array of birds we used to have. Our selection has become scarce, and before we know it extinct. Just as the extinction happens with birds and other migratory animals, the elderly from the north tend to travel south losing their desire to return home.
As a northerner myself I have often wondered what it would be like to only have two seasons instead of all four? What it would be like to hear birds chirping every morning, sunshining on you almost every morning, and being able to wear sandals year round? So as a migratory animal I decided to travel south for college and soon realized some of the myths are true while others are not.
As northerners we tend to forget that with hea
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