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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Maturity
Is maturity associated with wisdom?
Or is the mature person the one who has learned to live a practical and cautious life, without ideals and utopian dreams?
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It is a state of being full-grown, ripe, or fully developed.
Maturity, depending upon whether one tends to be idealistic or leans toward cynicism, seems to carry one of the following meanings:
Either one takes the position that maturity is associated with the wisdom gained from experience over time. From this point of view, the mature person is one who has learned from all that has happened to him and has developed, if not an infallible system that answers all questions, then at least an approach to life which is practical, informed, and wise.
Or, one takes the position that maturity is the state reached when one realizes that his childhood dreams were just that: dreams, and no more. One who is mature has learned to abandon youthful ideals, surrender impractical hopes and plans, and settle for reality and its limitations.
Or is the mature person the one who has learned to live a practical and cautious life, without ideals and utopian dreams?
....................................................................
It is a state of being full-grown, ripe, or fully developed.
Maturity, depending upon whether one tends to be idealistic or leans toward cynicism, seems to carry one of the following meanings:
Either one takes the position that maturity is associated with the wisdom gained from experience over time. From this point of view, the mature person is one who has learned from all that has happened to him and has developed, if not an infallible system that answers all questions, then at least an approach to life which is practical, informed, and wise.
Or, one takes the position that maturity is the state reached when one realizes that his childhood dreams were just that: dreams, and no more. One who is mature has learned to abandon youthful ideals, surrender impractical hopes and plans, and settle for reality and its limitations.
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