Maturity isn't when age increases.
Our idea of maturity is strictly limited to age.
To us, someone who is, for example, 40 years of age or so has the divine right to guide youngsters or someone inferior in age solely because his birth certificate is older. Maturity is directly proportional to age, as understood in our world today.
But this is not what maturity actually is. If there’s one thing that maturity is the least dependent upon, it’s the age of a person.
In real terms, maturity is to go deep down to the roots of beliefs that were put into one’s head throughout his life, investigate the nature of those beliefs, and free yourself from each one of them one by one. Maturity doesn’t come as long as one clings to the deep-rooted beliefs.
In this sense, someone can be half of your age and still be more mature than you.
Most people live off their lives without ever recognizing the falseness that their held beliefs were dripping with. During childhood, we ingest everything that the society has to tell us without ever questioning the validity of those beliefs, and it’s understandable because childhood is not the time when one can critically question what’s being shoved into his mind, but we carry this tendency to keep blindly gulping in that our surroundings feed us throughout our entire lives.
And much of the beliefs we have about ourselves, life, and the world already make their way to the deepest possible layer of our subconscious mind - so deep that we never notice them, let alone question them.
It’s not like it happens according to a grand conspiracy plotted by our family or other members of society against us. It happens because our entire civilization is in deep sleep and generation after generation, it keeps unconsciously passing on the beliefs about life and the world thinking of them as the reflection of reality. Everyone we meet in our lives- be it our family members, friends, relatives or just random members of society - chips in certain beliefs in our head about who we are or cements the beliefs that are already there in our heads.
When one takes birth in a civilization that’s confused and isolated from Truth, he is bound to live a life filled with illusions.
We can’t pinpoint one person and blame him for keeping us devoid of reality because almost everyone in our civilization is as much confused and traumatized as others.
Imagine this scenario: If there’s a room filled with drunk men and women, and they are clashing with each other and the walls around so frequently that they start to bleed. Is there one specific person whom you can blame for the bloodshed?
Not really, because everyone is drunk; unconscious of what they’re doing.
We are all like those drunk men and women, deeply unconscious of our actions because we are not acting from the center of our understanding but from the belief systems that we think of as real.
To get out of this drunk state, this state of being unconscious of the reality, is what it means to be a grown-up.
The higher the level of your consciousness, the more mature you are, and let me kindly remind you again that age plays no role in it. To correctly assess someone’s maturity level, don’t look at his age but his life. You would find that our entire lives are dictated by the core beliefs we never dare to question or investigate. One can be 60 years old and still have the consciousness level similar to that of 10 years old, which means he is not mature even at the age of 60.
Age increases even if one spends his entire life sleeping but to increase the consciousness level - which is to say freeing oneself from every belief he unconsciously lives by - is a choice.
Growing-up is a choice that very few people take and therefore, very few people are mature although there are billions who are old-aged.
It’s not as easy to ditch off the previously held beliefs as it may sound, because negating the beliefs that collectively are called “me”/”I” is a kind of death. Getting mature is not as simple as just letting the time pass by - which is what happens in case of age. It takes work, honesty, determination, and courage to know what’s real in this world of ideologies and identities.
As we understand the world more lucidly, as our idea of ourselves starts getting unfoggy, as we start getting attracted toward the question “what’s real?”, as we load off the burden of beliefs we carry throughout our lives, only then can we say we’re getting mature.
Until then, we’re just a small kid.
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