Ever met someone that seems “wise beyond their years.”
Despite being only in their early twenties they seem to have more knowledge than most people at thirty.
This comes from a vast amount of reasons, the most prominent one is experience.
Experience; whether it’s how many people someone has met, or how many different cultures they’ve been able to connect with, oftentimes it’s their living situation as a child that builds them this way.
The thing about maturity is that it’s not linear. For some it might be a slow incline until death. But a lot of the time, there are things that happen in life that slingshot you into a more mature person.
This could be the loss of a relationship, loss of a friend, or a great change like a new job, entering a new city for the first time. These things happen in life and that’s really when your maturity level changes.
Usually it’s a lived experience that triggers the shot up in maturity.
The unfortunate thing is that a lot of times people don’t recognize when they themselves may need to act more mature, either blaming the loss of a friendship fully on the friend, or when they get a new job, they believe they don’t need to change, and that’s what leads them to losing the job eight months later.
No matter the person, maturity has mostly to do with how you choose to respond to experience. The more insightful and self-reflexive the person, the more mature they are likely to be.
Maturity could almost be considered a skill that’s honed more and more through raw experience.
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