Does maturity really exist?
Often I wonder what does the term Maturity actually mean. I came up with lots of instances which everyone calls Maturity!!
1. Understanding others emotions
2. Behaving according to environmental conditions
3. Having a broad-mind to accept and adjust to situations
4. Controlling one's emotions and being patient
5. Facing truth boldly
6. Completing a job independantly without anyone's assistance
7. Facing a situation and solving it in a fashion which is beneficiary to the most
8. Maturity is humility
9. Demonstrating respect
10. Not being egotic or egocentric
11. Accepting others advice and the list grows.
Reading these few questions arise,
1. What do you call a person who has only few qualities of the above? Is he not a matured person or is he a semi-matured person or is still getting matured? If so almost everyone fall into this category.
2. If a person has all the above stated qualities, (s)he is DEFINITELY the IDEAL. But can this be met? "IDEAL" is something which cannot be reached but can only be compared with (My opinion, refutes please?)
3. Of all the above states, "Experience" was not a part of the discussion at all. But why do people always relate Maturity with Experience. Can't a kid show some of these qualities?
A small kid does not have any ego, accepts others advice, speaks only truth. Having some above stated qualities, can we call the kid matured? A grown boy has lots of above qualities but obviously does not match all of them. So can we call him matured? A granny has some qualities, so can we call them matured?
So from which age does a person starts getting matured? If maturity is going to start from birth, then "does maturity really exist" as a separate entity?
3 comments:
U have got me confused now. I thought i was mature enough. But now...
This is a good trigger! You've triggered me to ponder too :)
Maturity, I feel, is an ongoing process. A 5-year boy scores 1st rank in school, a graduate scores the top rank in college. Both have gained good command over their subjects, but in their own levels. The same is the case with maturity. At every level people display some maturity, which is definitely not the end of it. Maturity is a learning process, where mind keeps making itself competent to handle any situation in the most apt way. Obviously the intensity of situations and the impact of decisions get more and more complex as one grows and hence it continues as a never-ending process as long as the person lives. The ability of a person to learn and consolidate the learnings will rate the maturity of that person relative to the maturity of people in that category (be it age or any quantifier)!
your blog is a simple sign that you lack the maturity to understand maturity. You have a long way to go, kiddo... ;)
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