Puddles are a part of everyday life in Glasgow. Living in a city with 170 days of rain every year you’d except no less than puddles on nearly every street, park, or road. To most people, just trying to go about their daily lives, these puddles are a nuisance. A hindrance they have to avoid so they don’t get their feet wet, or they don’t get splashed by a car of dog running through the water. These puddles take up space on the streets and make it harder to navigate a busy road if everyone is trying to avoid certain spots where the puddles are over time people have just decided puddles are an annoyance to them and add nothing to the environment.

However, maybe this isn’t the case. Puddles can and will also be annoying from time to time but what if we actually stopped and looked into them? Would our opinion on these temporary urban additions be changed? Puddles may take up space on the crowded streets of the city, but they also add something new to the environment, their reflection. The reflection of a puddle is almost like a window into another world. One that looks very similar to our own, but everything is reversed. As a society we walk past, barely noticing the puddle a lot of the time and barely noticing the impact we have on them. People’s reflection appears then quickly disappears as they go about their life, unaware of all the little impacts they have had on the other world within Glasgow. Over time, the puddles shrink and so to does our window into their world. A window that is constantly changing to reflect the environment of out world.

In a city like Glasgow where puddles are so common and familiar, perhaps we should start appreciating them more and begin to look through to the window to their world.