What are the signs of maturity?
At what point in time is a person "officially" mentally mature?
At what point did you realize you were mentally mature? Or do you feel as though you haven't reached that point yet?
What exactly is immaturity?
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dirtybirdy
Mental maturity means you're still able to laugh about farts and poop but at the same time you take those things very seriously, making sure you have proper turds as often as possible with a bearable stench. Fiber is your friend and your dueces tell the tales. Never forget that.
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nobody13
To be fair, one of the major collections of world literature known as "The Arabian Nights" or "1001 Nights," contains tons of fart jokes, poop jokes, dick jokes and assorted sexual humor ("Come, pierce me with your rapiers!"), and yet it is still considered one of the finest pieces of literature from the Islamic Golden Age. If you want to feel cultured while giggling about farting barnyard animals, give it a shot.
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dirtybirdy
Haha nice. I recall my pop pop had that book. Not sure where it is now :( I shall give it a whirl if I come across it. Thanks man :)
I would also like to thank my pop pop for telling corny jokes, making bad puns and encouraging me to laugh at poop and farts. A granddaughter couldn't have asked for a better influence :'}
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53739
I like the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling, I think he captured what maturity means pretty well.
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Anonymous200
I think you're mature when you can be your own parent. A child lives in the moment and would eat the entire candy aisle if given the freedom. Parents restrain them from doing so. An adult can see a candy bar, think about if eating it is a good idea, then decide against it, even though they may really want it.
Adults can look ahead or behind them in order to make decisions, resist urges that would ultimately cause them harm and use sound judgement.Comment Hidden ( show ) -
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D'lirium
Whenever you know there is a struggle to get over and you need to be efficient enough to get over it.
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gloryholeflasher
When I was in elementary school I heard maturity defined as "the ability to suffer an injustice without seeking revenge". I think that's a pretty good definition and it's helped me a lot down thru the years.
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modernism
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Steve2.0
Physical maturity: When you are hot puberty and want to fuck everything in sight, even inanimate objects.
Legal maturity: When you turn 18 years old.
Mental maturity: When you are not stupid and ignorant. (Unfortunately, most Americans are still children)
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TrustMeImLying
I feel signs of maturity = a huge list of virtues. And if I had to pick just one to epitomize maturity it would be equanimity. Though that may be a very male view. What about you, OP? ;)
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modernism
That's a nice answer. I'd have to agree with you on the equanimity thought. For another thought, I think maybe the ability to admit fault, among other things, is a sign of maturity.
Do you think equanimity could ever be a negative thing?
I'm OP, btw. But I think you already knew that, haha.
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TrustMeImLying
I knew nothing! That emoticon was just because I rubbed my right eye and forgot I had eyeliner on! I swear!
admitting fault is a good one. tis one of my most favorite personality traits in a person :-)
You really have to try hard to find negatives in equanimity. For a long time I've wondered if being equanimous is reciprocal. Meaning, you notice how whenever there's a stressful scenario, one person being anxious kind of forces another to be the calmer one? So if you look at it the other way, is one being equanimous at another's expense? Would this be considered a negative? :O
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TrustMeImLying
Perhaps being excessively equanimous can be seen as lack of concern or a necessary... intensity.
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modernism
Eyeliner, hm. Very believable.
I actually think being equanimous at another's expense would be even more of a positive. It would be selflessness in a way - that itself could be considered a sign of maturity.
But a lack of concern is another story - I think that's a negative. I feel like a lot of people who -want- to be mature, feel the need to act apathetic 24/7 as if emotion is immature.
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nobody13
I don't know what the official stance on mental-maturity is, so I'm afraid I can't exactly tell you when people are fully mentally mature; different cultures and societies have different ideas about what it means to be mature. In Brazil, there is a tribe of people who believe that sticking your hand into a gauntlet full of bullet ants signifies maturity, and some cultures believe that one is only mature after they have absorbed all of the necessary cultural information one needs to be a functioning member of that society. Many cultures have rites-of-passage one needs to go through before they are considered adults. Think of Jewish mitzvahs.
I don't feel anything remotely close to being mentally-mature, whatever that means. Sometimes, I just feel like a kid in a young man's body; some people still think I am a kid, because I apparently even look somewhat neotenous. Of course, our culture's idea of childhood seems to have changed; we're not as comfortable ejecting 18 year-olds out into world as we once were, I think, even though they are legally considered adults. It has been said that the United States (sorry to those of you who aren't American and feel that I'm lumping your experiences in with mine) has become a culture that is fascinated with youth, almost to the point of trying to extend it indefinitely. I don't know if that's the case or not, but I'd say I'm definitely less mature than either of my grandfathers were when they were my age.
I don't think that anyone necessarily reaches mental maturity. We change as we grow older, and sometimes adults can act more unreasonably than children. We just grow and change, or get stagnant while the world keeps spinning around us.
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MrSexyJesus.