Will Smith is one of the most popular actors of our time. Most commonly known for his role as Will on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Smith stole our hearts early on with his charisma, charm, and humor.
Throughout most of his career, he’s led a pretty quiet and mysterious life. We’ve seldom had a chance to know Smith outside of the characters he’s portrayed on the big screen. Recently this all changed. Smith created an Instagram account mid-December and has quickly grown to be one of the top celebrities to follow and one of the highest in Instagrams engagement reporting.
In 2.5 month and 77 posts later Will Smith has taught us some pretty valuable lessons that we can all learn and live by through the transparency of his own life.
1. Love
We all know Will Smith would not be Will Smith if we didn’t automatically think of
his beautiful wife Jada Smith. Will & Jada have been a pair for what seems like forever and are commonly referred to as “hashtag relationship goals.”
Over the years we’ve seen this beautiful young couple blossom into one of Hollywoods top celebrity couple and families.
You cant help but love these two for their passion, pride, and love of all things family and fairness. In one of Will Smiths posts, celebrating their 20 year wedding anniversary, Smith shares the most beautiful poem highlighting what love is for him and Jada.
Love is listening, Love is giving, Love is freedom he writes and then goes on to say he is forever devoted to nurturing her deepest truth.
While most of us are still struggling to get a text back, Will Smith drops some knowledge on how to survive 20 years of marriage and to sum it up it’s all about sacrifice and giving of oneself fully. I have a good feeling Will and Jada will be teaching us more about love for decades to come through their own truth and transparency.
2. Family
With their 20 years of marriage, they’ve blessed the world with two beautiful and intellectually aware children. Will and Jada cant come without their highly popular celebrity kids Willow and Jaden. These two kids, well now young adults, have been some awesome representation of what Blackness means and also have been role model for our alternative representations of blackness in all its uniqueness.
These two children have shifted barriers and
started conversations on gender, style, philanthropy, and what it means to be alternative black. Will Smith hasn’t been shy of giving us a little more insight into his family dynamic.
He has several posts reminding us of the importance of family. From him babysitting Willows dog, to he and Jaden fighting in the comments you can’t help but smile when you see the interactions of his family only.
Last Christmas they had an ugly sweater Christmas party and while Will may not have been the most thrilled he commented in one video that Jada and Willow love the holiday so he gets in the spirit to see a smile on their faces. He’s even been more transparent about his oldest son which has caused a lot of controversy in the past.
Their family dynamic isn’t perfect but it can teach us all the importance of family and why we should keep our loved ones near and dear.
3. Motivation
In a recent video, Will Smith dropped some more bombs of knowledge on us regarding friendship, passion, growth, and pursuit of following your dreams. Smith quotes 13th-century poet Rumi, telling his followers to “set your life on fire” and “seek those who fan your flame.”
He goes on to put his Will Smith spin on it telling us “Don’t be hanging with no jank-ass jokers who don’t help you shine” which was a very literal translation. In this video, he teaches us to understand who in our lives are motivating us to be our best version of self, and who is there to inspire us to shine.
Friendships are about being surrounded by those people who not only inspire us to reach our dreams but help and support us along the way.
He leaves us with a charge at the end of the video to check our last 5 text message and evaluate if those people are helping us live our best life 2018. I took the challenge, you should also.
These are just a few centralized messages we can find through Smith’s journey into the social media realm.However, the sudden popularity of his account can be attributed to the value in his content.
He’s deliberate, witty, charming, and most of all transparent.You’d think with all of the money and fame
The Smith’s show us that there is a priceless amount of value in staying true to love, family, and self. This is one of my favorite Hollywood families and I’m excited to watch their growth for years to come
Brandon Herring is a financial professional by day and ratchet scholar by night. A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign his areas of specialty include personal finance, entrepreneurship, business, and marketing. He Is a self-proclaimed know it all with a love for his community, and seeks to contribute philanthropically through financial education amongst African Americans.
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