Song of the day : Boyz2Men - End Of The Road. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKO6XYXioc. An old classic !!
Dictionary.com defines mature as 1. complete in natural growth or development. 2. ripe, as fruit, or fully aged, as cheese or wine and maturity as the state of being mature. So when you say that someone is mature do u mean that theyre really ripe?? or the other defintion? LOLOLOOL.
But Nah, seriously !! When is a person "mature" 18?, 21? or just wenever they feel like theyve grown up and ready to take responsibility?
I guess beign Mature will have a different meaning to everyone out there. I think that Maturity is when your ready to take responsibility and can make decisions with certain discretion. Others may debate this, and i wont argue them cause thats how i perceive it.
Does beign mature make u boring because u have to act all responsible and stuff?? thats the question i wna ask u guys and see wat u guys think. I think that "fun" will have a different meaning as your age increases. Back in Primary school fun is wen u play video games non stop and play sports everyday and just simply not giving a damn and now as a uni student i find lots of fun in other things. For example, 5-6 years ago i would just go to church to just bludge around, chat, and be stupid. As time goes by, we change and our attitudes change too. So by 06/07 onwards i started going to church for the right reasons and now i guess i find Church and Biblestudy fun because of wat i learnt in KYCK and RICE which ill explain in another blog later !!
I guess, as time goes by, we all become more physically developed and start to think more logically. Another example is back then when i used want sumthing say a PS2, i wud like buy it without really thinking because i want it and everyone else has one. But nowdays, u start thinking about the other alternatives, the opporunity costs and sum of u may even use the cost benefit test. LOL. Whether this extra thinking approach is advantagous, i dont know. But it does help ur decision making which kinda makes u more responsible because we dont wna get ripped off.
Not everythings about decision making though. My 2nd defintion of mature wud also be taking care of ur friends and ur close ones. Think about it.. Everyone that u have ran into, has a significance in the shaping of who u are. People are like footprints !! the more time u spend with sumone the more of their footprint gets left behind on u and the more people uve met the more footprints u have.. I think that, ur friends and family are the biggest asset u have so u want to treat them the proper way.
I guess the only time you know wen ur mature is wen others say u are. People theese days put a high value about wat others think about them. Like for example the Korean girls band SNSD, most if not all of the girls there have forked out a lot of money and gone under the knife to look good (as if they didnt look good enuf to begin with). But yeeea i bet they did it cause well they want ppl to have a good opinion on them cause obviously all of them can sing and dance well.
Another perspective is that, wen u start thinking about theese things u know ur either 1- on the right track of beign responsible or 2- slowly doubting ur self. With me, i guess iam in the middle. Sometimes if i dont know how to act id just stay quiet and follow the motions. Other times especially with people i know and trust id be more stupid (although not as stupid as 5-6yrs ago) more lively and more loud. Because of this 99% of u wont trust me with ur finances and even my opinions but wats gna happen wen i graduate with my accounting / finance degree later on?? how would i act??
I guess for me, rite now. My matureness (if thats even a word (lol)) will have to be a balance of just messing around but also beign able to protect the people around me. As far as responsibility goes, its pretty much straight foward, do the things you want to do and what others want you to do. Sure my decision making may not always be right, but thats the inevitable cause no ones able to predict the future and while others say i have no common sense, thats probably why iam more cautious and ask more of theese so called "stupid questions" which many people classify as the so called "obvious" and look down at me for....
Beign Lost is not fun at all because ur lost in your tracks but its also very fun because ur on an adventure to not be lost !!
Have a good one everyone !! ObvNotAldo signing out
I forgot to mention also that the most important factor of maturity would be Standing Firm in God. I rekon that if u are firm in what u believe in which in my case would be Jesus Christ then nothing can possibly sway u away from it. Its the ones that arent firm that start to doubt themselves and thefore impact on the behaviour afterwards.
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