Maturity.
Age is only a number but in human terms life gives an opportunity to learn through maturity. Is that learning automatic?
In my teens and even at a younger age I had an urge to act without thinking of the consequence. Sometimes on reflection I did not always make the best choices. The benefit of maturity is that I can try to learn in a good way from the past. To do that I have to review how to behave or react in a positive way to sometimes negatively viewed experiences. The most important thing is not to dwell on the past solely with regret because I think that does not improve what has happened for anyone. Words are simple to say but I think maturity is about a need to get down to really knowing myself. In a strange way and when you think about it, this can be more frightening than any horror story!
I know what I like, what I don't, I know what I think about many important issues but for me maturity is about understanding who I am on a deeper basis. How do I do that? It is the little things that indicate how I view the world. Take a bar of chocolate, I am with friends and after breaking the bar, the pieces are not equal in size. What is my first thought? Hide the larger pieces and offer my friends the smaller ones or close my eyes and give them all a choice of picking large or small pieces? Does the answer indicate my maturity?
An incident that really happened to me was when I was driving my car and while waiting stationery at a red traffic light the car behind began tooting their horn at me. What was my first thought? To ignore the hooting as the light was red or to make a rude gesture? Again, many would say that maturity or immaturity was the overwhelming influence in that particular experience.
A drive out quickly became a major incident for my wife when she was in her car and she saw a huge lorry hurtling down the road she was on, at the same time she saw that a tiny tot had left the safety of his house and had wandered into the oncoming traffic. He was about to be driven under the huge wheel of a giant lorry. The driver could not see the impending disaster. The tot was too small to be seen and all my wife could do was watch as he tottered out in front of the huge lorry. She furiously hooted her horn and pointed at the tiny tot on the road. Fortunately the lorry driver saw my wife gesturing to him and he became aware of the small boy. He stopped in time. A disaster was averted. If in a similar situation someone panicked and did not manage to act in a crisis, would that have anything to do with maturity or is it just the condition of the emergency and individual's given response to it at that time that can dictate what happens in an event?
King Solomon with all his wisdom is often associated with the word maturity. He is a historical example of justice. Is maturity all about wisdom? To me, maturity represents many aspects that one can use in life. There was an interesting episode that I experienced, while on a visit to an old castle. In the grounds covered in neat grass there were two enormous sunken holes that were about eight foot deep and over twenty foot in diameter. There were two young boys playing and I overheard one say to the other that they could jump into the hole for fun. Before they could carry out their plan, as the only adult present it occurred to me how different my first thought was to theirs and I shouted out to them to wait a minute, because while they had thought about how they were going to get in, they had no answer as to how they were going to get out. They quickly thought better of it and decided to chase each other instead.
I have always found it interesting how maturity can be so different in general terms between the sexes. Why does it sometimes seem that nature has instilled a girl to have a more realistic view of some areas in life and in comparison a young male will stay a boy even over the age of socially agreed adulthood.
As I write this piece I have become aware of the thought that wisdom is a particular attribute and it can be a learnt and age related concept. Wisdom is the application of thought and is not considered to be tied to any specific age, more than this wisdom can be gained through life experience. Everyone's notion of maturity in relation to a given age may vary but in society there seems to be many particular points that one has to meet if they want to be considered mature.
At the age of about twelve my father passed away after a long period of being confined to bed for health reasons. To me, he had seemed the wisest man on earth and I put that down to his age. I thought how wise all the adults were and could not wait to be like them until it became apparent grown ups did not always apply or even learn wisdom despite their maturity in years.
I think that maturity is something that many have different experiences of and often it is a positive influence on how one can look at life, think about what has shaped them and how they can benefit from a different perspective. Maturity is not the same for everyone but for me it has meant a renewed insight into what truly matters in life.
In my teens and even at a younger age I had an urge to act without thinking of the consequence. Sometimes on reflection I did not always make the best choices. The benefit of maturity is that I can try to learn in a good way from the past. To do that I have to review how to behave or react in a positive way to sometimes negatively viewed experiences. The most important thing is not to dwell on the past solely with regret because I think that does not improve what has happened for anyone. Words are simple to say but I think maturity is about a need to get down to really knowing myself. In a strange way and when you think about it, this can be more frightening than any horror story!
I know what I like, what I don't, I know what I think about many important issues but for me maturity is about understanding who I am on a deeper basis. How do I do that? It is the little things that indicate how I view the world. Take a bar of chocolate, I am with friends and after breaking the bar, the pieces are not equal in size. What is my first thought? Hide the larger pieces and offer my friends the smaller ones or close my eyes and give them all a choice of picking large or small pieces? Does the answer indicate my maturity?
An incident that really happened to me was when I was driving my car and while waiting stationery at a red traffic light the car behind began tooting their horn at me. What was my first thought? To ignore the hooting as the light was red or to make a rude gesture? Again, many would say that maturity or immaturity was the overwhelming influence in that particular experience.
A drive out quickly became a major incident for my wife when she was in her car and she saw a huge lorry hurtling down the road she was on, at the same time she saw that a tiny tot had left the safety of his house and had wandered into the oncoming traffic. He was about to be driven under the huge wheel of a giant lorry. The driver could not see the impending disaster. The tot was too small to be seen and all my wife could do was watch as he tottered out in front of the huge lorry. She furiously hooted her horn and pointed at the tiny tot on the road. Fortunately the lorry driver saw my wife gesturing to him and he became aware of the small boy. He stopped in time. A disaster was averted. If in a similar situation someone panicked and did not manage to act in a crisis, would that have anything to do with maturity or is it just the condition of the emergency and individual's given response to it at that time that can dictate what happens in an event?
King Solomon with all his wisdom is often associated with the word maturity. He is a historical example of justice. Is maturity all about wisdom? To me, maturity represents many aspects that one can use in life. There was an interesting episode that I experienced, while on a visit to an old castle. In the grounds covered in neat grass there were two enormous sunken holes that were about eight foot deep and over twenty foot in diameter. There were two young boys playing and I overheard one say to the other that they could jump into the hole for fun. Before they could carry out their plan, as the only adult present it occurred to me how different my first thought was to theirs and I shouted out to them to wait a minute, because while they had thought about how they were going to get in, they had no answer as to how they were going to get out. They quickly thought better of it and decided to chase each other instead.
I have always found it interesting how maturity can be so different in general terms between the sexes. Why does it sometimes seem that nature has instilled a girl to have a more realistic view of some areas in life and in comparison a young male will stay a boy even over the age of socially agreed adulthood.
As I write this piece I have become aware of the thought that wisdom is a particular attribute and it can be a learnt and age related concept. Wisdom is the application of thought and is not considered to be tied to any specific age, more than this wisdom can be gained through life experience. Everyone's notion of maturity in relation to a given age may vary but in society there seems to be many particular points that one has to meet if they want to be considered mature.
At the age of about twelve my father passed away after a long period of being confined to bed for health reasons. To me, he had seemed the wisest man on earth and I put that down to his age. I thought how wise all the adults were and could not wait to be like them until it became apparent grown ups did not always apply or even learn wisdom despite their maturity in years.
I think that maturity is something that many have different experiences of and often it is a positive influence on how one can look at life, think about what has shaped them and how they can benefit from a different perspective. Maturity is not the same for everyone but for me it has meant a renewed insight into what truly matters in life.
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