North is not “up”.
The sky is “up”.
North is “that way” or “over there”.
(Maybe your maps have been all wrong and you just haven’t realized it.)
I thought I lived “up” in North America. If I lived in Australia, though, I would NOT think of North America as “up” at all.
Depending where you are in the world North can be to the left, to the right, to the back, or to the front…but it’s never “up”.
Sometimes you have to turn everything on its head to see better. When you do, the switch may be more “right-side up” or rather “proper-side up” depending on where you are at the time.
Don’t believe every map you’ve been given; be that an actual globe of the planet Earth, or some sort of path someone or some culture has told you to take.
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