Recently, I worked a party where I was making balloon animals for the children and after creating one of my special dragonfly balloons a father approached me. He asked if he could have a dragonfly. As I was making his dragonfly, he proceeded to tell me about how he grew up in Louisiana and that down there are thousands of dragonflies and that my dragonfly reminded him of the ones back home. Right about then his wife came up and asked what he was doing. He told her he was getting a dragonfly for himself. His wife looked at him and asked, "Aren't you a little old for a balloon animal? He said that he never really had a childhood and looking at the balloons made him feel like a kid again. He said, "I guess that makes me a 30 year-old kid."
Later that same day I was working another party and the professional photographer who the family hired approached me and asked for one of my explosion hats. Like the party before as I was making his hat, his girlfriend came up to him and said, "I can't believe you are actually wanting a balloon hat." He then replied by saying, "When I was a kid my parents refused to let me have a balloon sculpture and I have always wanted one. Now after all these years, I finally get to have one." After I presented his hat to him, he quickly put it on and to my surprise ran out to the middle of the yard and started dancing and shouting, "Look at me, I have a balloon hat!"
I have been a clown since 2003 and I am still amazed at how much joy a simple balloon creation can give a person regardless of thier age. The act of bringing some joy into someone's life or alllowing a person to grab a piece of a lost childhood is why I love being a clown. There is no greater calling than to serve my fellow man in this capacity.
Later that same day I was working another party and the professional photographer who the family hired approached me and asked for one of my explosion hats. Like the party before as I was making his hat, his girlfriend came up to him and said, "I can't believe you are actually wanting a balloon hat." He then replied by saying, "When I was a kid my parents refused to let me have a balloon sculpture and I have always wanted one. Now after all these years, I finally get to have one." After I presented his hat to him, he quickly put it on and to my surprise ran out to the middle of the yard and started dancing and shouting, "Look at me, I have a balloon hat!"
I have been a clown since 2003 and I am still amazed at how much joy a simple balloon creation can give a person regardless of thier age. The act of bringing some joy into someone's life or alllowing a person to grab a piece of a lost childhood is why I love being a clown. There is no greater calling than to serve my fellow man in this capacity.
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