I’ve just finished Will Smith’s autobiography. I know!
Park the last few weeks incident for a moment.
There are some great insights that get you thinking. Probably influenced (written) by Mark Manson who helped him write it.
One that really sticks is the part about what you do when the people closest to you don’t do what you want them to.
“It’s easy to love / like somebody when they do what you want / fall in line with how you think. But how do you behave / react when they step outside that picture?’ (paraphrased from Will)
It’s not about having an easy life because people do what you want them to do. Whether at home, school, work, community. That’s not It.
It’s how we approach tolerance and difference that makes us who we are.
At work, do we only want the same people around us, who agree with everything, who think the same, who even look the same. Or do we welcome difference.
At home, are we Ok that there is diverse thought, difference of opinion. Sometimes these things will divide us. That’s Ok. Sometimes we live with it.
But what is important is to know where you stand. And never to feel like your voice isn’t worth anything.
(And if you have read the book, you might have the same view as me, that the incident that happened at the Oscars was not really that surprising or shocking, it’s complicated, and life is complicated, even if you are a Hollywood superstar).
eleanor