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What you define as mental/emotional maturity? Like, what qualities would characterize someone as mature?

Also, on that note, is it possible for a person to have, in a sense, multiple maturities? Like, if I were to say, "She has maturity in some ways that I lack, but she lacks maturity that I have.", meaning both in the sense of mental or emotional maturity, would that statement be inaccurate?

I agree with Koi, but I have something to add.

When it comes to maturity, there are two ways of displaying it, both of which require INTENT, which is hard to prove.

When a young person is acting mature, he or she may be doing it for completely different reasons than an adult. For a child or teenager, acting "adult like" may serve to get him or her recognition and respect, but under that display of serenity there might be a child inside, screaming and wanting things.

When a truly mature person is acting in a mature way, their MOTIVES are also mature. There are abilities for many adults to appear mature on the outside but not the inside, but it's hard to say if many children or teens can manage the inner mature motives.

But I think that's OK. Children and teenagers are learning a lot about how to become adults. Hopefully, this will teach them to at least ACT civil.

xd Thank you, Vyce. Is it for the sake of the hot, wild turtle porn, or just because I am?

Anyways, I guess I should post my own opinion of maturity. Maturity, basically, is accepting the responsibilities that go along with the rights. Immaturity is just wanting the rights.

Plus, what has already been said.

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But, wise? I've been called that several times, and I never get why. And I'm far from stable. I lose my temper easily, and have to focus a lot of energy to keep from just screaming out at people.

I wonder why I'm so intent on convincing people otherwise whenever they say something positive about me? Oh well. It's not important.

Now that I think about it, that little sentence can answer almost every question out there...

But not this one, seeing as society's view on maturity isn't as varied as the individuals that compose it. Maturity ratings on TV and movies are based on age. Why? Simple. Because some parents have relied on the media as babysitters. To avoid stupid problems like ridiculous lawsuits, it's much easier to rate everything by age and make it easier for those parents to control what babysits their children, all thanks to parental controls. Of course, there are parents that educate their kids, but still preferred their children didn't watch certain things.

Still, some parts of society, while preferring age, use mental capacity as a signal for maturity, which is why some parents leave "the talk" for sooner or later, depending how quickly their children mature. It's not exactly what society says it is, it's influenced by accordances met and accepted by numerous individuals in upper ranks of society, who then expose these points to the rest of the population, who then decide who is mature and who isn't based on their relations with others. While it sounds like society controls this little decision, it's really just individual taste. Haven't you noticed how different people's opinion's about one person are when meeting them? Some view that person as mature, others don't. Some say he/she excels in an aspect while others say he/she lacks maturity in that department.

I believe that maturity is something that varies from individual to individual. In some tribal cultures the rituals of adulthood can be performed at any age. You could die in your 80s without ever having become mature in the eyes of your peers. Of course there are lots of religious ceremonies in Western culture, but those only apply to the religious. All one must do to drink and vote is live so long.