Do you ever feel like your life is just idling along? Not too much happening, nothing noteworthy, but you keep seeing the days passing you by. That is where we are. Normally this wouldn't be a problem and we could just scoot on by and start again with no one noticing our downtime. However, due to Facebook and our life being displayed as if you are reading a novel, we have been told that the story is getting stale and the "book has been put aside". We are just as bummed by this as all of you.
After our sail to the Bahamas in May and June, we came home to our lives that were put on hold. Our jobs were still there, waiting for us to get right back in there and pretend as if nothing had happened. Something had happened. We had changed. Who knew what a 2 month sailing excursion could do to ones state of mind and outlook on life. We had lived in a boat that was so small that you couldn't even pee in private. Materialism became absent. If we wanted to buy something cool along the way, where on earth would we put it that it wouldn't get wet and who was going to see it? Turning off our phones for 2 months was amazing. There were no deadlines. We relied on the wind and we had to be patient and flexible. The demands on the water were different then ones of daily life at home. Bets were made on how long we would last together in a space so small. That was not an issue, but getting back to our real lives was harder than we had ever imagined. Our house was huge. Our bathroom was as big as our living space on our boat. I wore my bikinis every day, never a bra, and now I have a closet full of clothes that I can't even imagine wearing. I wanted to just escape back to the water and have our lives be just Mark and I relying on each other and being thankful to God every morning for the amazing views we got to see.
It has been 5 months now since our amazing trip. We parked the boat in the driveway, unpacked our belongings and started back with the landlubbers life. We long for the day in summer that we will put New Girl back in the water. It feels like such a distant memory with a bittersweet ending.
