Miscellaneous
https://soundcloud.com/adsummitph/come-out-and-playWords: Abi Aquino of MullenLowe PhilppinesMusic: Jasper PerezArtist: QuestRecorded, Mixed and Mastered at Soundesign Manila, with special thanks to Raul Blay.I believe that we are all capable of leveling the playing field, but we are often pushed to make the teams uneven because we are afraid there isn’t enough for everyone. And This model of scarcity keeps us from balance. But just like hockey we need to practice – and play is ground for practicing these skills – new people, new ways of doing things, new ice, new skates, new neighbors, And when we play we fall down, we make mistakes, we say things wrong, we grab the wrong stick , we forget a puck ( although I’m told that never happened), we get home late, we freeze our feet, we get in fights, we negotiate, we find our way…. But we don’t practice enough, and when we haven’t practiced change and coping and navigating newness then the bar for tolerance, gets very low… So that everything new, new people, new ways, different moves, new languages, new faces, new noises, new workspace, new colleuges, new ways of doing, new process… Our bodies and are minds are not prepared for it, and so we react like we would to anything we might perceive as dangerous… we freeze, fight or flee… We become very sensitive to newness and this sensitivity comes from of lack of practice in adversity. Play is practice for adversity and difference. Play is where we learned to play with who was on the team because that is where your stick was, and to bend a little when things weren’t perfect. And we learned to create the playing field for everyone…not just to level it. What if we practiced changing direction, and falling down, and navigating new, un standardized , unknown and uncertain a little more? Just a thought from the playground today but consider Can play through our lifetime change the fierceness of our reactions to people , experiences and places different from who we are and where we have been? Come on in this playground is for everyoneWith greatest thank to my incredible husband...