In the midst of the pandemic I felt, like most people overcome and undone. My usually busy life was no longer an escape. Everything was still. My day job and home life collided into an unsure virtual bumble... and I just felt uneasy all the time. Lost really. But this business we had Marty's Parties helped me so much. We started to offer balloon packages to celebrate people. Birthday packages (because there were no parties allowed), graduation packages, (because their were no graduations), celebration balloons for Mothers Day and Father's Day (because interaction were limited). We provided safe outdoor dropoff all over the city of Philadelphia and the surrounding counties and the joy on people's faces was palpable. We literally brought joy to people's houses when so much was in despair. Making people smile gave me hope and perspective. It make me happy to help. My balloon business saved me. I felt like I was drowning and the joy of our customers and their lived ones lifted me to a better place of gratitude.
People put so much emphasis on perfection when thinking about Jada Pinkett-Smith and celebrities/politicians in general. I think about all of the naysayers saying that she can't be an expert on interpersonal relationships or give advice through channels like the Red Table Talk series because of her recent admission of supposed infidelity in her marriage. But she is a human being. That is one thing that has frightened me in all of my professional journeys. People believe that if you fail in one aspect of your life then you don't have the right to give advice to anyone in another area or even in that area of life. It is a perceived notion that you must be perfect all around, have a perfect image everywhere so that you can advise. People are trying to cancel her saying that she can't give anyone advice on anything anymore because of this new revelation. This revelation that is new to us. But who are we really? My question comes in how can people grow if the mistakes they make ...
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