Maturity

There is an inner child in every one of us. Somewhere, somehow there are times that we tend to act like a kid. What if we act like a kid for just maybe 5 minutes out of 24 hours, does the world have the right to take it against us? Maybe, maybe not. Some can get away with it, some don't. But what is with maturity that most people tend to really admire? Not just even admiring, but really wanting it, like it is in their sort of criteria for someone to be regarded as perfect, well maybe almost perfect because nobody really is perfect.

My cousin said this about me, "Here is a person who achieved maturity very early on in life, earlier than other people. However, the inner child of hers is still very much alive and very well nourished that I think it has grown bigger than her." So you see, even though someone is mature, it doesn't mean that the inner child will be lost forever. It is always there. That's why a person is so unpredictable and so mysterious because one can be really mature but can also be childish at times. And people admire this. It gives someone more funk and it makes someone more intersting. It's the mix of maturity and the childishness.

I still believe that maturity is really important. But maturity is really a vague word, we all define it in a different way. Maturity for one person is not the same for the other person. But the common concept we have of maturity is that it is when we don't act childish. In my opinion, it's not how we act, it's how we think. How we handle every situation that we encounter and our outlook in life. It doesn't matter if once in a while we act childish, we can still be considered as mature. It's your over-all disposition, not a thing or two you do, but all-in-all.

We should always keep the inner child in us alive, nourish it as much as we can because it's one of the things that can make us young, be young and feel young. The inner child in us gives us the spirit that we need to go through the difficulties in life. It gives us the spunk that we lose as we grow older. Maturity goes hand-in-hand with the inner child in us.