MATURITY

Author Unknown

 

Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction.

 

Maturity is patience and the willingness to pass up immediate pleasure in favor of long term gain.

 

Maturity is perseverance, the ability to sweat out a project or a situation in spite of opposition and discouraging set-backs.

 

Maturity is unselfishness, responding to the needs of others, often at the expense of one’s own desires or wishes.

 

Maturity is the capacity to face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat, without complaint or collapse.

 

Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say I was wrong and when right, the mature person will not say, “I TOLD YOU SO”.

 

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it.

The immature people spend their entire lives exploring endless possibilities and does nothing about any of them.

Maturity means dependability, keeping one’s word, coming through in the crisis.

 

The immature are masters of alibi, confused and disorganized. Their lives are a maze of broken promises, former friends, unfinished business and good intentions which never materialize. Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which we cannot change……