Sometimes I keep wondering, when in the course of history of human growth does a human mature. Every phase of life is a sort of "Maturity Phase" according to me. When you are born, you want to mature to the next phase which is speech and recognition. Once we are done with that or even parallely a new challenge is set- to make the child ambulatory. So we all mature slowly to 18 year old adults and that is the phase of life where you need the most help to prevent you from going astray. Lot of people use the term "juvenile pleasures" or even "jawani ki josh" sometimes to refer to an immature act. So my question is "What is Maturity? How does one attain it?". Dictionary.com defines it as
a) The state or quality of being fully grown or developed
b) The state or quality of being mature
The other meanings of the word Mature refer to Bonds( like when the Bond is due) and Geology which are not relevant. Another definition states that : Maturity is the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed.
I think most of us who are 20+ agree maturity is something of a mental thing. We all think that maturity is something which shows ability of a person to shoulder responsibility and handle it successfully. The complexity of the responsibility is also crucial here.I think "Maturity" is a term that is overrated primarily due to the fact mental growth happens when a man/woman is in his/her 20s, 30s, 40s and even when he/she is in the 80s and is learning something new. Life teaches you so many new things and everyone has limited short term and long term memory that none of us can remember we learnt in the past X years where X is a number larger than 10. So Maturity is a phase of life that every human may/may not achieve before his/her death. Maturity should be defined as a phase of life where individual can manage daily activities independently and also handle the ability to handle not-so-mundane tasks without much fuss. The definition of the "not-so-mundane" tasks is relative here.
3 comments:
Hey Playboy,
Very thot-provoking blog there....yes, I am in the blog business too......
We live our childhood years without much reflection. Take it easy untill we are put into positions where we need to take responsibility . For some us, a sense of responsibility means maturity. For others it might mean best behaviour under extreeme situations. But we all live through our lives trying to "get it right" .
Maturity is important. But chasing can only lead to frustration. As it can only come with age,time,experience.
Keep blogging!
Soni
Hey Prasad,
Nice thot provoking blog......
Yes , I agree Maturity is overrated. We all chase it...trying to "get it right". But there's no doubt that maturity - comes with age and time.
Keep blogging,
Sohani
Hey,
Nice blog. Keep writing.
Soni
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