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Henry Johnson LR
2 min readApr 9, 2022

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What Will Smith’s ten years of Oscars ban should teach you?

I find the new Will Smith’s hatred and being painted as a violent person, maybe due to the psychological effects of method acting, laughable. This shows that to arrive at what’s success in this country, you get no cheers, the 16–18 hours of no sleep, the long lonely nights, the jealousies from close friends and families, and still, you rise says something. What does it say?

It says that you can be a professional throughout your career, an imperfect husband who finds it to forgive an entangled wife, which of course, many of you would not do but go to church every Sunday; a father who’s fiercely devoted to his family’s success and has never been caught up with the law and has given millions to the poor in the past, and has stood for diversity at the Oscars, etc.

He has been at the height of his career for almost three decades and has been an inspiration to millions worldwide. It troubles my soul to see how one moment people loved and admired you, and in one second, it’s COMPLETELY all taken away, and you are being painted as a dangerous and lousy person over one’s mistakes as if they are all perfect beings. I’m not saying this to promote Will’s mistakes but to reflect on life’s ups and downs; the ones that act as if they support you at the top would be the same ones laughing at you when you moved from grace to disgrace in a second and everything you’ve done for humanity would be instantly forgotten.

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Henry Johnson LR
Henry Johnson LR

Written by Henry Johnson LR

I am a Liberian-born American writer with great ideas to impact lives and leave this world a little better than I found it.

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