Thoughts From Places: Imagining People Complexly

I went to Edmonton with my brother today to pick up his new car, so driving home by myself gave me quite a lot of time to think. That's one thing I really love about long drives by myself - I always think about a lot of things. Which may not be good because I should be paying attention to the road, but anyway. I was listening to "Looking for Alaska" by Hank Green, which got me thinking about John Green (obviously) which always seems to lead me to "imagine people complexly" for some reason. I don't know why. But it does. And I just started to think about how that was all well and great to say, but it's a hell of a difficult thing to do in practice. I learned that the hard way the past month or so. I had it in my head that a boy was a different person than he was, and because of that, I ended up getting hurt. My own damned fault. Now, if I had just imagined him complexly all of that could have been avoided, no?