What Is Maturity

What is maturity ? Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. Check. Maturity is patience. Needs work. It is the willingness to pass up immediate pleasure in favor of the long-term gain. Needs work. Maturity is perseverance, the ability to sweat out a project or a situation in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging set-backs. Check sometimes. Maturity is the capacity to face unpleasantness and frustration, discomfort and defeat, without complaint or collapse. Check sometimes. Maturity is humility. Needs work. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." Check. And, when right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so." Check.

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Needs work. The immature spend their lives exploring endless possibilities; then they do nothing.

Maturity means dependability, keeping one's word, coming through in a crisis. Needs work. The immature are masters of the alibi. They are the confused and the disorganized. Their lives are a maze of broken promises, former friends, unfinished business, and good intentions that somehow never materialize.

Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which we cannot change, the courage to change that which should be changed -- and the wisdom to know the difference. Check sometimes.

I have to work on some more things.

tfaduh.