Travel and the vision of The Bounce - thought 1

We've just returned from our 6 day escape to Singapore, a brief yet impactful holiday, filled with plenty of walking and sight seeing, too many shopping malls, so many Starbucks, and almost all of the people we saw were smiley friendly people.

With my eyes wide open on this trip, looking for clues as to what others do in these parts of the world, I felt more than ever that the majority of us are linked together in a mass of non-linked confusion, leading seperate lives towards a goal that no one knows nor really cares to know.

It's very much a Shakespearean scenario. You know the lines: All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.

I get that impression more and more. It's like we get up, work or play or eat or read or drink or have sex, turn that part of us on at that tiny moment, then immediately turn it off again. And that turned off state is most of our lives. Sad eyes and lack lustre attitudes tell us that 'the switch is now off, please come back at a more convenient time that suits me, not you.'

There was a guy we met on the MRT (local trains) who was holding a book called The Element. I asked about it, as I do, and Paul expained the books purpose is to discuss how we discover our purpose. Brilliant. This was not a coincidence that he was holding the book. Paul happens to be the co-founder of Qi Global, a social enterprise business that is designed to inspire people to think and act more progressively with deeper social and environmental considerations towards how we live, work and play in a future world. Paul, if he were not living in Singapore, would be a perfect Bounce invitee. I'm hoping to have him join the blog and share some ideas. He is a Thinker. I bought the book the next day. It's by Ken Robinson (or Sir Ken as Paul called him.)

The Bounce is about people like Paul, a "turning on" of the stream of thoughts we all have access to but rarely invite into our minds, and a getting away from the switched off lives. A coming together intended to grow through the sharing of higher ideas, to have Thinkers Thoughts.