Thursday 25 October 2012

Growing Up

When do some people get maturity or rather do people get maturity at all, is one of the questions I have wondered about for quite some time.
When I was a kid a felt or heard from my parents that maturity came out of a need.  It was the situation in which the person had been which was responsible for the maturity in that person.

But now, as I go about life, I see different examples where the situations expects the individual to show maturity, however there's not even a glimpse of maturity seen. Its more like a black hole where
you atleast hope that some light might escape but alas there's no light after all.

If it's not the situation, then when do people get mature?
Then I though of another question do people mature after a certain period of time. More properly put
is there a time frame after which people do not mature. Not being mature might become inertia.
Once it becomes natural, it becomes very easy to justify the actions taken. Sadly, the rational mind does develop, so reasons are provided a galore.
And if nothing else works then there's temper tantrums like a small child.

It is fun to be childish but if we become childish only to protect our faults its no longer fun.
Then its only protective instinct that leads to our actions or justifications or emotions or whatever may be manifested at that time depending on our social protocol or the relation with the individuals involved in the process.

This leads me to believing that maturity has to be forced on a individual. I am not sure how one can forced to be mature but if one doesn't understand then there is no point waiting.
After some time, the time to understand has already gone and the only time left is to not understand.
That can also be fun, however living in society can be some sort of a problem in that case