Bouncing Along

This is from a Sony Bravia commercial a few years back.  I either don't recall ever seeing it, or luckily I am not so addicted to television that commercials stay embedded in my mind.  Well, not some commercials, that is.  But I have to admit that it's an awesome concept.  250,000 balls bouncing along the streets of San Francisco.  The multitude of color easily got across the point of superb color quality in Sony Bravia television sets.

But then, I started thinking deeper.  Imagine 250,000.  To see the balls bouncing, some of them hitting other objects and halting their forward progression, it sort of gives you a better grasp of how big this world is.  Take that initial 250,000 and multiple it by a thousand, and you'd still only get a fraction of the people in the world today.  We are each like one of the bouncing balls in this video, bouncing along in this journey called life.  We interact with the similar traveling balls that happen to entire our space, never fully aware of how interconnected we all are.  We bounce from spot to spot, moment to moment, doing our best to avoid being knocked off our path.  Some days, our movement is a slow, high-arcing leap, happening gradually but covering a great amount of distance.  Other days, it is a quick, erratic springing, taking us in all directions, including backwards.  Our movement is continuous, dependent upon our last, but also always subject to change.

And then, one day, the bouncing stops.

Here's to a long and eventful journey, until that very second that the ball comes to a halt.

Marcus Jamison, the Rare Poet