aerasio

Maturity

Everybody thinks they understand what maturity is. We all have a vague idea of what its like: not resorting to violence, using diplomacy and negotiation, heading for a 'win win' situation. Yet the 'substance' of maturity is something thats hard to pin down. What is maturity exactly? Its having your priorities straight, its knowing that you should do unto others what you would have others do unto you, but what is it exactly? A wise man once said that the World is full of the sinners who think themselves righteous and the righteous who think themselves sinners. But can maturity be described in the same way? How does one describe maturity, or harder still, how does it feel to be mature?

Most people have a rough sense or inner gauge of maturity which they use to judge themselves and others. Yet, it's not a quantitative thing. One cannot stockpile maturity, or accumulate it. There is no such thing as maturity points or I'm more mature than you are!. Its almost like an immeasurable.

Yet its not really qualitative either. There isn't a point one reaches in life that marks someones 'maturation'. Its not like you hit 12 midnight on your 21st birthday and suddenly tada, you're mature. At the risk of sounding like a parrot, maturity never really stops. There is no end to it. We are all on a journey of maturation on the great road of life.

Everyone thinks they have some semblance of maturity. At the very least, they're more mature than they were in kindergarten, right? We think we know better, think better, are more justified, have more reasons. How often have we looked back into our pasts and laughed at the follies of our old selves? Too often we have done so only to age a little more and laugh at what not so long ago was perfectly normal to us. Aging gives us the wisdom of hindsight that is renewed with the passing of every second. It stops only in death.

Everyone thinks they have the answers, but they really don't. There's only one guy in the Universe who has them and he's been talking to us. Have we been listening? We think we're the masters of the universe, the greatest of God's creation, that we know everything! How much do we know really?

Now think again, how mature are you?

So said Aerasio at 00:30