Do you believe that maturity comes with age?
By fieryfrost
@fieryfrost (316)
Philippines
January 21, 2007 9:02am CST
I was surfing the net, going into forums and all that. I came across a thread (thank God not from here)and I was surprise to find a 40 year old guy bashing a 19 year old girl! I was like, what the hell is this? He was even using explicit words to diss the poor girl. Anyway, I butted in and told him that it actually makes me feel weird to find a guy his age act so immaturely! I expected that since he's already in his 40's that somehow he's more mature about things and all that but hell that was not the case. So here's the question, do you believe that maturity really do come with age or with something else?
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4 responses
@siddotam (5)
• India
21 Jan 07
Maturing does not come with age. Maturity is something that is related to experience and his or her interpretation of things. It is believed that maturity comes with age, but if you look at those are successful in their life, all that they gained is from their experience in their life. Let it be dealing with women, dealing with children, elders, friends, etc.
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@butterflygirl (498)
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24 Jan 07
Your answer is spot on, that's exactly the point that I was going to make. Like you, I believe that a persons level of maturity is related to the experiences they have had in their life, and as a result you can stumble upon some very wise 'young-people' and some very unwise 'old people'.
@smanish_81 (6)
• India
25 Jan 07
I think maturity come with experience and some from age. Becouse of age matter with experience. Gradually your age incresses as well as your experience incresses accordingly. some both are propostional with each other.
@hitzphillygirl (1235)
• United States
21 Jan 07
No, I believe that you have to want to be mature.
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@dunce002917 (226)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Sad to say maturity does not come with age. I have known 30-40 year old people who still feel and act like teenagers. I have given up reminding them to act their age. What gives me hope though is that I meet other people who (like me) are mature beyond their years. 20 somethings who are accountable and responsible enough to think in the long term. Heck we even discuss retirement plans and investments. These are the people I love to associate with.
