What is the worst advice you've ever received in your life?

During my whole high school, I was bothered by some stupid classmates because I was fat - more curvy than fat actually. My relief was writing/doing Calligraphy, it relaxes me af. One day, one of those stupid classmates asked me "why do you keep writing stuff like this? It won't take you anywhere... You know, this is not relevant." Luckily he told me this on a day I was fully stressed out, so I just asked him to go fuck himself and kept writing. 3 years and half later, I chose to study Electrical Engineering, since I love physics but I work as a calligrapher on my free time and started uploading my work online. Some of my works got viral - I was on Imgur's front page yesterday. 2 weeks ago, I was invited to meet some of the greatest Design & Calligraphy during an event and some then told me that I was already country's top 150 relevant works and it was quite surprising since I don't work with Design professionally. I mean, my references know my work and they like it! I was the happiest person ever. More than idols, I made good friends on that day. After all, I wish I had the opportunity of meeting the horrible people I studied with some years ago just to say thank you to all they did. They taught me a lot about "what you should never do to someone" and being respectful to everybody. It's a huge pleasure not being like them.

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