No Ping ... No Pong

No Ping … No Pong

I was a better than average ping pong player in my younger days.  My friend Mike Graham and I spent countless hours in my basement, and when our family gathered for Christmas, ping pong always made its way into our activities.

Here’s the thing … In ping pong, if you hit the ball, that’s the ‘ping’ part.  You need someone on the other side to ‘pong’ the ball back to you. Otherwise, you’ll chase that little ball all over the room.

If you are waiting on the ‘pong’ side, you’ll wait forever if nobody comes along and ‘pings’ to you.

We need each other to play an effective game of ping pong.  I create a widget and I need you to buy my widget.  You make a gadget, and you need me to buy your gadget.  Do you see how ping pong works?

Sometimes, I think we have forgotten how to play ping pong.  It takes two, you see. 

If I ping you,

               and ping you,

                       and ping you,

with no response, sooner or later, I’ll move on to the next player.  Maybe they will return one of my pings.

One way conversations, after all, are nothing more than monologues. 

I’m a writer.  I ping my blogs out into this universe.  If no one ever read them, I’d stop writing.  Thankfully, that is not happening.  I get ponged on occasion, and I love that.

Let’s play a game of ping pong. 

Your serve.

This is my

morning reflection.

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P Michael Biggs

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