{"id":1992,"date":"2013-03-10T03:17:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T11:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.wordpress.com\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2013-03-10T03:17:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T11:17:49","slug":"dreams-of-domesticity-manila-philippines-03092013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=1992","title":{"rendered":"Dreams of Domesticity \u2013 Manila, Philippines \u2013 [03\/09\/2013]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"423965895_66470eb1eb\"<\/a>Send back the world
\nthere\u2019s too much view for me
\nthe sky is much too high to shelter me when darkness falls<\/i><\/p>\n

It\u2019s odd the way life works. When you\u2019re at home, convinced that you\u2019ll never go anywhere, stuck working behind a counter day in and day out \u2013 you tend to have National Geographic style daydreams. Your mind drifts to exotic adventures in faraway places (with strange sounding names \ud83d\ude09 ). You think that maybe one day you\u2019ll go rock climbing, or zip lining, or hot air ballooning. You put together an imaginary life that would put Christopher Columbus to shame.<\/p>\n

And for most people, those daydreams stay just that: day dreams.<\/p>\n

When you work on ships you actually \u201chave\u201d that life that so many people daydream about. Seriously, you do \u2013 I mean, two days ago I was on an outrigger canoe on a river that ran under a mountain range. A few weeks before that I was on top of a mast dozens of feet above the Sydney Harbour. My day to day life resembles something out of a travel magazine.<\/p>\n

So you know what we tend to daydream about? A \u2018normal\u2019 life. No, I mean it. My daydreams have gone domestic, whereas most people stare into space and think about seeing Mt Fuji or the Eiffel Tower (neither of which I\u2019ve seen yet, but that\u2019s beside the point), I spend ages thinking of what colour I want to paint the den of an apartment I don\u2019t even have yet. I think about how wonderful it would be to get new filing cabinets (white, three drawers, with brass labels) for all my sheet music and a murphy bed for a non-existent guest room. I think about carpet colours and picture frames and being able to bake fresh chocolate chip cookies for visiting friends in my very own kitchen\u2026of a house that smells like lilacs and salt spray and fresh baked bread, with walls the colour of gourmet mint ice-cream and a view that changes without the whole place having to move. I dream of a bright red door that locks behind me and keeps the rest of the world at bay.<\/p>\n

People say that I sometimes don\u2019t know how lucky I am. People envy the life I lead out here, they envy the fact that I live most people\u2019s day dreams. And it\u2019s true, I adore my job, and I love my life, but sometimes I\u2019d trade all of it \u2013 the adventures, the rootlessness, the freedom, all of it –\u00a0 for that non-existent apartment.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I\u2019d trade it all for just a bit of normal\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Send back the world there\u2019s too much view for me the sky is much too high to shelter me when darkness falls It\u2019s odd the way life works. When you\u2019re at home, convinced that you\u2019ll never go anywhere, stuck working … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-below-the-waterline","category-grand-world-voyage-2013","category-reflections-below-the-waterline"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-w8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}