Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. Maturity is patience. It is the willingness to pass up immediate pleasure in favor of the long-term gain.
Maturity is perseverance, the ability to sweat out a project or a situation in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging set-backs. Maturity is the capacity to face unpleasantness and frustration, discomfort and defeat, without complaint or collapse. Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when right, the mature person need not
experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."
Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. The immature spend their lives exploring endless possibilities; then they do nothing.
Maturity means dependability, keeping one's word, coming through in a crisis. The immature are masters of the alibi. They are the confused and the disorganized. Their lives are a maze of broken promises, former friends, unfinished business, and good intentions that somehow never materialize.
Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which we cannot change, the courage to change that which should be changed -- and the wisdom to know the difference.
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" The purpose of life is to fight maturity. "
And the question was that what does this line mean to me... maybe to anybody and how come someone has come to this conclusion... Different people will have different opinions on this thought but here is my answer for you Raghavan....
This quote was not something which I came across and just kept it in my caption to give some weird glance to the outter world or may be to myself upto some extent . Rather it was a very personal and may be very much genuine confusion which was or say still undergoing inside me and believe to most of the common man.
From a common man's perspective if we see (at least in India as I have experienced till date), as we grow up we are expected to learn the things around us, to think about life, career, responsibilities etc ...
And once we start doing it in full action people around us start believing that all these acts are coming as we have become mature. And once the people understand it we also feel inside ourseleves that yes ! we have matured.. This process keeps on going till the december of life when we reach on the last stage of life.
I am not sure about others but what I feel personally that this is not what I ever wanted and it is fine upto a certain extent only , after that it starts bothering . And yes sometimes my maturity bothers me... Having the sense of what is right and what is wrong or what we should do and what we shouldn't starts obstructing in some stages of life.
In any case it's a good thing as you start contributing towards yourself,your family and the society where you live. But don't you feel that when u were a kid the things were better around you. You never had to think maturity in deeds or words. And even in the age if immaturity the life was full of happiness , more freedom less worries .
Now when you are mature, sometimes you have to rethink what you are going to speak or to do because your maturity forbades you to behave like an immature person, though sometimes it costs you at least mentally to pakka 100%. and this is the way whole life passes in front of you.
Every day when we get up, from the early morning till the time we land on the bed, we have to act mature ... and why because we are so called mature people, even though the heart wants to get rid of this self imposed imprisonment and fly high on cloud nine. No but we can't do it because we are mature. And thats why someone has well said....
"The purpose of life is to fight maturity" ... the maturity which kills you every quantum of life but we smile and act mature....
But deep inside in the wrecks of the mature heart there is something which always resonates and revolts against the maturity and that is where we get the energy to sail through the storm of life to behave MATURE though fighting every second with it.
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