what is maturity exactly? who decides what is mature? are there different levels of maturity depending on your age or should it be based on your experience?
after discussing this topic with some peers, they say that maturity is...
-patience
-humility
-perseverance
-confidence
-making a decision and standing by it
-making informed decisions
-direct communication (actual face to face or phone call instead of e-mail or text)
-facing challenges without complaint
-thinking about others more than yourself
-taking care of the things one is responsible for
-self-awarenss and reflection
however, as of late, I have been witness to particular situations in which grown mature adults either define maturity in different ways or have forgotten that they are/or should be practicing mature things...maturity to them could be any number of things. Maturity could be...
-throwing the clear celophane and silver wrapper of a cigarette pack on the ground and stating that someone better clean up this mess
-or-
-texting information that is essential to someone else's life such as I'm moving out and infering that texting is a clean break or a sufficient way to establish a dialogThese fantastic bouts of maturity allow me to think about myself not that hard as an only child but to also reflect on how my decisions are affecting myself and the people around me? What actually separates us from animals...relationships, empathy, memory? But within the questions, I find answers to other life follies such as why the kids of today are so extremely rude and disrespectful.
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