Maturity
MATURITY
BY BADRU FIHINFOLUWA
This has been generally misinterpreted over time. Many
people can tell if a person act immaturely-even the immature ones, but cannot define
the term maturity.
Is maturity age? Is it body status? Is it achievement? What
really is maturity? Let's find out.
The offline English Dictionary explains maturity to be the
state of being mature, ready or ripe that is ready for use. A person without
enough knowledge on a particular topic or title cannot win an argument against
a person with full knowledge about the issue.
Maturity is the act of applying required knowledge that has
been acquired over time when situation calls for it. It is an act therefore it
is reacting to a situation in the right way and at the right time.
If I join a discussion
without having enough knowledge about it, how can I be tagged immature. If I
have the required knowledge and I don't apply it, I can be tagged immature.
Maturity appears in all levels and sector of one’s life. You
can be morally mature, emotionally mature, sexually mature, and academically
mature and so on.
I can be indomitable
in business but lack morality or even be emotionally unstable. That is, I
am emotionally as well as morally immature.
If I have attained a
marriageable age and I don't know how to sustain a relationship; I am maritally
immature (I am not ready for marriage). I can be financially independent and
equally financially immature (I have limited knowledge on how to maximize
fund).
In the same vein, immaturity is having limited or no
knowledge about a particular situation. It can also be said as the inability to
apply acquired knowledge when necessary (Talking out of context is an example)
Similarly, knowing too much, too soon can result to
immaturity. A
Child that knows how
to lie at a very tender age will grow up to be a trickster; and that can be
really dangerous.
Sociology professor Tony Campolo said, “I am convinced we don’t live in a generation of bad kids. We live in a
generation of kids who know too much too soon.”
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