I am someone who was taught to respect my elders and show deference to their wisdom. Or rather lived experience. And, as a trainer in the past I most definitely made to sure to acknowledge experience. Thus, what I have to say next has nothing to do with disrespecting experience.
Many people do believe that because they have been doing something for a long time, they know best how to do it. I think we can all agree that is simply not true. Have you seen the TED talk on how we’ve all been tying our shoelaces incorrectly our whole lives? If you haven’t, I recommend watching it. The talk is just about three minutes long.
The same philosophy holds true in regards to perceived and self-ascribed maturity. Many would argue there is a direct relationship and set correlation between age and maturity. However, that is not correct, either. At least not in my book.
You can say you’ve reached a certain level of maturity when you can own your mistakes and own them publicly (visibly). You reach maturity when you stop making excuses. Step up and step in, is how I like to refer to it. Courage may be needed but that is ok.
Categories: Culture, identity, Leadership, Management, mental health, Psychology, society
psychologistmimi 
Personally Glad i Didn’t
Reach Maturity at
21 Or 47
Rather
Be Dead
Definitions
For Maturity
Vary My Definitions
Match None Of The ‘Norm’
How Do Sunsets And
Sunrises Mature… If They
Did They Surely Would Be
Boring
To me At Least…
Some Never Stop
Coloring… All Sunsets
And Sunrises… Some Humans too…
Generally People Become
More Rigid And Averse to
Change As They Grow Elder…
So Do Domesticated Cats…
Truly Cats
Taught
me More
About Humanity
Than 3 Degrees in
Health Science, Anthropology,
And Social Sciences Put Together…
Why?
Those Three
Degrees Only
Study Domesticated
Humans… i Lived With
A Feral Cat… He Always
Searched For New Sources
Of Water…
Never
Complacent
On What He
Was Spoon-Fed in Life…
And Most Importantly
He Never Stopped Playing
Just Like A Kitten As
Play
In
The
Wild Means
Breathing Surviving
Really Breathing Surviving
my Sister Has A Once Feral
Cat too Expressing So
Much More Epigenetic
Potential Across The
Life Span
No Thanks
To Domesticated
Maturity i Do Wilding
my Wife Does All The Adulting
To Be Clear it’s Not Normal
It Reflects A Life of A
Male
Bonobo
More Than
Domesticated Human
Yet It’s Free And It’s Play
And to
me at
Least
It’s Really
Living Coloring
Sunrises Sunsets Free 🌄
-Curious George AKA me
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Admitting past errors of judgement and taking responsibility for those errors; this is maturity for me.
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