Maia said something in the Most Mature Member thread that I agreed with at first, but then as I started to think about it, I began to find myself getting upset with the statement. What she said was, "Maturity is not getting involved."
I completely disagree. What if Paul Revere had rolled over in bed and thought, "I'm too mature to go riding around town and warning people?" What if police thought, "I'm too mature to arrest this serial rapist?" Maturity and involvement have nothing to do with one another, and if they did, then I believe that the original statement would have to be fully inverse to be true. Not getting involved is called apathy, or laziness, and neither of those things, to me, equal maturity.
Maturity usually depends on the given situation. I believe in Maia's argument (if you really want to call it that), she was refering more to something like a flame war or drama thread. In such cases, the mature thing to do would be to either not join in on the flaming or to try to stop the flaming.
But even so, in that case, the most mature thing to do would be to get involved and try and end it.
I do think a level of apathy can be mature if you manage to shrug off any insults and flames that get tossed your way and manage to just ignore people like that and not let your temper get the best of you (lol run-on sentence).
Maturity is a quality you gain from experience. In my opinion, Maturity (In this case, anyhow) is using all of the mistakes and general experience to judge how one should act, if someone is immature they may not have as much restraint or may not have as much to judge with, so they are labeled as immature.
Did that make sense? Is it relevant? I don't know.
When i say restraint, i don't mean apathy, i just mean that mature people know when to not say anything, or when to change the subject or basically shoot someone down .-.
wait, what?
Maturity to me is someone to doesn't resort to arguments and slander to resolve things. Maturity also means experience to me.
Idk. It's more of an intent kind of thing rather than a specification of an action.
I agree with Zylos here. If it's something you're not supposed to be a part of then you should stay out of it.
On the other hand, if a police officer decided not to arrest a serial rapist because that's not mature then he's pretty immature for escaping his duties :3
lol, I agree with Zylos too.
Maturity can also be called understanding. If you are mature enough, you will know what to say when etc and know when to speak/to keep silent.
=D
And you will concentrate
At this point, the idea of what maturity is has been so extremely warped that nothing sounds exactly right :V
Just to take inventory, and sum things up, the majority of people here see maturity as the application of knowledge and experience to a situation, as well as noting that the situation warrants a response.
I would have to agree with that. The main part of maturity to me is learning from mistakes, and using the knowledge to keep from making them again.