Simply Complicated!

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein

 This has been one of my favorite quotes for a long time.  Albert Einstein has always been an idol of mine.  He was a very smart man that still inspires many people til this day.  His quotes, not only this one but all the other ones you can find online, really inspire me.  This quote in particular always stuck with me because at first I really didn't know what it meant.  Throughout my life, I've been learning what exactly this quote means.  I've been through many situations where people have made things way more complicated than it had to be.  Throughout my life, I've learned that simplicity is right in between too much and too little.  I've also learned that people make things more complicated than it really has to be because they don't actually know to much about what it is they are doing. 

There is another quote from Albert Einstein that says "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough".  We've all had at least one of teachers tell us to write our paper so that a sixth grader would understand our topic.  I now understand why they've said that.  If we are able to explain a topic simply enough for a sixth grader to understand, then we ourselves knew well about our topic.

Simplicity can be difficult to achieve, just don't over think it.  It's simply not that complicating if you don't want it to be!