Life doesn’t move in straight lines.
It behaves more like a pinball table — angled, obstructed, unpredictable — and most of us spend far too long blaming ourselves for not travelling neatly. On the Bounce reflects on what happens when a mind that doesn’t fit one system later finds itself thriving in another. What looks like disruption in one setting becomes initiative in another; what’s judged as awkwardness becomes adaptability. It’s a reminder that a strength placed in the wrong environment will always look like a flaw — until the table changes. You can’t control the table. You can choose how you play the bounces.
It behaves more like a pinball table — angled, obstructed, unpredictable — and most of us spend far too long blaming ourselves for not travelling neatly. On the Bounce reflects on what happens when a mind that doesn’t fit one system later finds itself thriving in another. What looks like disruption in one setting becomes initiative in another; what’s judged as awkwardness becomes adaptability. It’s a reminder that a strength placed in the wrong environment will always look like a flaw — until the table changes. You can’t control the table. You can choose how you play the bounces.
Allsorts is a loose-limbed collection of short pieces for adult readers — observant, sometimes wry, sometimes unsettling — where ordinary moments quietly reveal the way we really think, decide, and live. If that seems like a story that might interest you, find more details here: https://justso2026.com/founders/
