What is Maturity?

Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without
violence or destruction.

Maturity is
patience. It is the willingness to pass up immediate pleasure in favour
of the long-term gain.

Maturity is
perseverance, the ability to sweat out a project or a situation in spite of
heavy opposition and discouraging set-backs.

Maturity is the capacity to
face unpleasantness and frustration, discomfort and defeat, without complaint
or collapse.

Maturity is
humility. It is being big enough to say, “I was wrong.' And,
when right, the Mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying,
“I told you so.”

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

Maturity means
dependability, keeping one’s word, coming through in a crisis. The
immature are masters of the alibi. They are the confused and the
disorganised. 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.