Assignment 19 - Tahsen Hossain - You want some advice kid?

"What is the one piece of advice given to you that has stuck?"

This is a surprisingly hard question for me. I did not expect to face this much difficulty trying to remember a useful piece of advice. People don't give me much advice on things.

I guess the best advice I've received so far came in two parts from two different people.

The first was probably not meant to be advice but rather an excuse to get me to stop talking. Whenever my mom didn't feel like explaining something to me in its entirety she would give me the cliched "the world's more complicated than you'd expect". Whenever I would ask "complicated how?" or "why?" she would respond with something along the lines of "Well if I could explain it in five minutes then I suppose it wouldn't have been that complicated" tacking on a rhetorical "would it?" at the end for good measure. At that point, I knew not to poke the proverbial bear but I usually didn't think much on her words afterward. Looking back on it now I can confirm, the world is definitely more complex than I thought it was.

This realisation happened largely because I was watching Crash Course on youtube and John Green exclaimed in one of his patented John Green asides, "Stupid truth! Always resisting simplicity, and such!" and it made sense.