Maturity in environments where care, responsibility and intelligence are important is not overrated. For example, in a hospital.
Maturity in environments where it doesn't matter if you're silly or childish and where it can actually be a beneficial stress-reliever to let loose the inner child is probably overrated. For example, in a park.
But maturity is really a common standard of behaviour expected by society dependent on age. This can be influenced and altered, it just requires a general consensus. We often expect people to 'act their age', and our notion of how their age should act is based upon other people their age.
Do you think that maturity is overrated?
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I think it depends on the context.
Maturity in environments where care, responsibility and intelligence are important is not overrated. For example, in a hospital.
Maturity in environments where it doesn't matter if you're silly or childish and where it can actually be a beneficial stress-reliever to let loose the inner child is probably overrated. For example, in a park.
But maturity is really a common standard of behaviour expected by society dependent on age. This can be influenced and altered, it just requires a general consensus. We often expect people to 'act their age', and our notion of how their age should act is based upon other people their age.