Behind every achievement, there is something or someone helping it to happen. It doesn’t just happen on its own.
It’s football season… One of the best times of the year! The newspapers (if you still read them), the radio, the TV broadcasts and social media are full of the highlights, and there’s the talking heads giving accolades to those who make it happen… The ones who score, the players who catch, definitely the player who throws and the stud who kicks and the one who runs like a lightning bolt into the goal line!
And you betcha… They are the exciting players and playmakers who put the numbers up on the board! And they do certainly deserve our applause and adulation!
However…
If they did not have the support of their line, their blockers and the tacklers and the guys who support their role, let’s face it… They would be shoved to the ground in a heartbeat.
Sadly, however, we rarely if at all here are the names of these done a number of guys are making the play. Except for maybe Michael Oher. Hell, he even got a movie out of the deal!
So, let’s hear it for the boys! I made it a point when I announced at football games to give shout outs to the players on the battle line!
Do you see the man living in the penthouse on the upper West side of Manhattan? It could be any man or woman, doesn’t matter who… What does matter is how he or she got there. Chances are it is because of being a top executive of a financial firm or the owner of a corporation or a hotel magnet or business mogul. Most likely worked very hard his or her entire life and deserves to be at that address.
But let’s face it… Every single bonus check and financial wealth and rising to the top 100% had to have employees in the background and in the back rooms making it happen. If you own a company, unless you have somebody on the streets selling your product or advertising it for you… Your doors will close faster than an elevator in the Marriott hotel.
The employees make it happen.
Women have definitely made strides in the work place over the years and I am all for that and happy for all of us, and them. Yet, there still have been those, like myself, who have chosen to put their careers on the back burner and take care of the household, which includes day-to-day tasks and the raising of children into young adults into mature individuals who can make the world a much smoother running place in one better to live in.
At the same time this is being done, there are vehicles pulling out of driveways every morning of the other partner or husband and maybe even wife going to make it happen on a financial basis.
It’s hard to make one happen without the other. It certainly can be done with both working, but speaking for myself, I chose the aforementioned path.
When the proverbial sh** hits the fan, kids are screaming, and washing machine is broken, there’s a sick kid at school that needs to come home, there’s an energetic meal that needs to be made for the family, one kid needs to be on an opposite side of the city than the other to play a sport for which hopes are high to play in college… The one making the big bucks is able to just drive on down the driveway and flourish in the career.
That leaves somebody else taking care of the aforementioned young adults into individuals into superstars.
There’s more than just the face on the screen, the name being heard or the picture on the pamphlet.
The supporting cast. Let them be seen!!
Support can be beautiful!! 
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