Popular actor and media personality, Lateef Adedimeji has opened up on how he handles fame.
The role interpreter popular for his role in ‘Ayinla’, in an interview with TheNewsGuru, said he doesn’t react to everything written about him.
Adedimeji who is a graduate of Olabisi Onabanjo University noted that veteran movie legends didn’t have online presence and they succeeded in their craft.
Hear him:”You are expected to feel bad when negative things are written about you because you are human and have blood flowing in you. You have the right to reply, but maybe because I am a communicator and I know what it looks like. I know what the pen means. I don’t react to everything written about me. Half of the people that write about you, they don’t have a close contact with you. They arrive at the conclusion themselves and put it out. My father will always say to me, don’t ever assume. When you assume, you conclude. If you assume the wrong thing, you will conclude on the wrong thing.
In life there is no assumption. I don’t dwell on assumptions. If it is something I feel it is worth responding to, I will clear it. What is important to me is to keep one’s focus. There is every possibility that what they write about you, is to shift you from your path. If you choose to listen to them, you may shift from your path.I have come to realize that in those days, all of the celebrated legends didn’t have online presence and they amounted to something in life. A lot of people have an online presence but they don’t have an offline presence. I deal so much with my offline presence that is why I’m giving back to the society. Reach out to people around you. If Instagram or social media shuts down today, what becomes of the life of so many people”?