Understanding maturity
How do you define maturity? Do you define it by body size or growth or age?
It is wonderful to know that although we all put on a façade of maturity, a few actually have attained this prestigious stage.
Your height changes, your shape, your voice becomes so distinguished that it will only take a blind man to call you a child
Have you ever wondered at a particular display by a supposed adult? What exactly makes one mature? In the physical sense, it is a state of being fully developed. At this point you are quite distinguished based on the development of different body parts. Your height changes, your shape, your voice becomes so distinguished that it will only take a blind man to call you a child. Wonderful, right?
Does this truly make one mature? Can someone be an adult yet have the mental capacity of a child. Not that there is a medical condition that made it so. Have you ever in complete frustration at someone’s character to the point that you could not help but scream “stop being such a child”. At a point you take the tone used to reprimand a child to speak to the person.
He lets go of some traits embracing the full character of responsibility and leadership.
Attaining mental maturity is a stage where everything that a person becomes fully developed in his thinking that later transcends to his character and general behavior and conduct. He lets go of some traits embracing the full character of responsibility and leadership.
11 “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” (1 Corinthians chapter 13 verses 11 to 12)
Putting away the childish things and embracing wisdom. I have seen a movie once where a child was crowned a king. Due to his age they had to appoint a regent who will rule in his stead until he is old enough to make decisions for the kingdom. In another case, the bible recorded that Josiah was just 8years when he began to rule Israel and he ruled for a long time. It was recorded also that he found favour with God and was successful because he chose to walk with God rather than the gods of his fathers.
Maturity is first leaving your comfort zone and placing a demand on yourself to outgrow certain things till you reach a point of refinement
Someone once asked me what I thought maturity is after relating a story. I said maturity is first leaving your comfort zone and placing a demand on yourself to outgrow certain things till you reach a point of refinement. Comfort sometimes hinders maturity. A baby gets to appoint he is expected to start crawling; he will have to leave his mother’s lap and get to the ground. No one will crawl for him; he has to do it on his own. Some life achievements cannot be reached if we do not let go of our comfort. Achievements are what is expected from a mature mind not minding how tall or short or slim or fat the person is. Get off the couch and begin to build what will distinguish you.
I watched a show where a man brought a case to the court that his neighbor from whom he has been tapping Wi-Fi secured his Wi-Fi and he could not access it again. The judge was so upset he had to take the tone of a parent disciplining a child. At first look he was so well put together with his grey beards and all, but once he opened his mouth, things went south. At a point the judge had had enough and dismissed him and his case. Lack of maturity debases a person. At the point of pressure what is your response? Maturity in your own sense or an attitude you will not feel embarrassed about when you think about it later.
In conclusion,
We all have an inner child that manifests a time or two. Do you give it free rein to take full course? Have you made a decision that 9 times out of 10, I will be an adult worthy of emulation. Think about it.
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