Maturity

Maturity is one of these things that people use as a way to judge others, parents use it to get their children to behave, teenage girls use it as a means of getting boys not to embarrass them, hell they even use it in the cheese market.

I've had experience of all three examples...... not so much the cheese one, I just tend to buy whats on offer at Tesco. When I was wee lad my parents would tell me to 'belt up and stop being to bloody immature'. This I can accept, I mean when rolling around on the floor screaming because I had to go to church on Christmas day then I probably wasn't up there with Odysseus on the maturity ranks. But hey back then I was a baby in the eyes of the world, no one expected me to be a master of wisdom.

Since being a teenager, I've learnt to hate the word maturity as it is used as a word to cut down the self esteem of the average teenage boy. A lot of girls tend to go on about how no guy their own age is mature enough for them. They get so caught up in their own complex that men start to lose interest in them.

They do have a point in some respects that no one really wants to spend time and get intimate with an overgrown 6 year old. But the girls who are obsessed with acting mature just tend to come across as exceedingly boring. The phrase has always been "acting mature", for me it is the word "acting" that stands out, an act is something that isn't permanent and really anyone can put on an act, isn't it better to be yourself and not deceive people into thinking that you are something else.

I don't even know why this topic bothers me so much , lucky for me my girlfriend puts up with all stupid lines I say and all the weird jokes I make. I just feel that I should convey the message that if someone is concerned about being mature then they themselves probably aren't.

There's a quote that sums up everything I've been trying to say, for the purposes of this moan the meaning is a little skewed.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
Marlon Brando