Bunk-bed ?

Blog 168:

There are not many things and situations in daily life about which I could or should complain.  With the confines of my 5 x 2.5 feet bunk bed in Manila's Lotus Street residence however, that's another issue with which to contend! 

The 2-inch thick foam mattress of the top bunk serves enough comfort when I'm seated on it for a short while, but staying still for an hour on it gives me the feeling of concrete or metal!  Sitting long on it is not good!  To ward off the discomfort, I move my bottom every now and then, and every which way I possibly could.  Nothing much happens!  It simply tells me that a change is needed if I wanted comfort.  For now, it's an economics' question, so ... brood and whine as much as I make, not a thing could, would or should  change.  What's the consolation, you ask?  A few purposes that it serves, beginning with utility!

The top of the bed is where I rest and bed for whenever I need a spot on which to straighten my body or assume fetal position for extra comfort.  I could get extra comfortable with a number of pillows for 'company', but at least two does the magic for me.   I also use the top bunk to get away from the cares of the day.  Up there, when I've had enough of meaningful or mindless chatting downstairs with visitors and family,  I find myself able to really get away as if I've physically taken  leave of the place or the entire house!  I also have a different perspective when I am atop.  I actually could commune with the ceiling and the top compartment of the built-in cabinet which usually get unnoticed standing in the room.  I just mused recently on the intricacy of the ceiling molding, and the handwork that went into its carpentry.   When I need to seriously think, read or compose important and unimportant thoughts, the top bunk is where I want to be and to do all!

The bed below serves as a holding place.  It's quite like a storage,except it is open.  I use it  for "standing, progressing projects" that I hope to complete while temporarily based in this location.  The space began as a sorting ground for a hodgepodge of holiday presents and giveaways to whomever fits an item be it a family member, an acquaintance or a friend.  Last weekend, I finally got the area organized to give me senses of direction on what to do with the bags and bunches of things from overseas parcels that arrived.  This past week, I used part of the space as my makeshift den from where I watched TV on eye-level.  So far, so good ... 'kinda' cozy,really!

The small and narrow bedroom I occupy would not have served me well without the odd, and old-military-type bunk-bed loaned (or given away to me?) by 'J&'J couple.  I have them to thank for the privacy and utility it affords me temporarily.  Suggestions have recently been made by other Lotus residents to rid of it, but for the greater good it provides, I would not part of or from it ... for a great while!