Maturity

Have you ever compared your life now to how you were when you were younger?

Take between 18 years old and near retirement. Look back on your lives and see the differences between then and now.

Have you changed much?

I have changed astronomically.. The person I was, is nothing compared to the individual I am.. And I'm sure in 10-15 years I will not even recognize the person I am today..

However age does not mean maturity. As I have known people that acted and were the same 14 years after I met them. Even with their life itself changing, drastically. They as an individual remained the same.

I'm inclined to see both points of views here.

Looking back on my own life,I have changed so much,learned many bitter lessons and good lessons through my life.
I don't rush into instant decisions any more,I sit and ponder which are the best paths to go forward. Leave the bad times behind and go forward into the good times....I hope!

SpiritVoices wrote:I'm inclined to see both points of views here.

Looking back on my own life,I have changed so much,learned many bitter lessons and good lessons through my life.
I don't rush into instant decisions any more,I sit and ponder which are the best paths to go forward.  Leave the bad times behind and go forward into the good times....I hope!

What were your views as a teenager? Or as a tweenie or even later? I think it is interesting to see how many people have changed. Many years ago it was really difficult to buy a Tarot deck or to buy crystals except raw minerals in a specialist shop or museum, now there are so many shops and look at those online!

SpiritVoices wrote:I'm inclined to see both points of views here.

Looking back on my own life,I have changed so much,learned many bitter lessons and good lessons through my life.
I don't rush into instant decisions any more,I sit and ponder which are the best paths to go forward.  Leave the bad times behind and go forward into the good times....I hope!

It's usually the bitter lessons that help build our character. So in retrospect they actually become excellent lessons in helping us move forward.

Perhaps we gain wisdom as we age rather than maturity.

Crystal wrote:

SpiritVoices wrote:I'm inclined to see both points of views here.

Looking back on my own life,I have changed so much,learned many bitter lessons and good lessons through my life.
I don't rush into instant decisions any more,I sit and ponder which are the best paths to go forward.  Leave the bad times behind and go forward into the good times....I hope!

What were your views as a teenager? Or as a tweenie or even later? I think it is interesting to see how many people have changed. Many years ago it was really difficult to buy a Tarot deck or to buy crystals except raw minerals in a specialist shop or museum, now there are so many shops and look at those online!

Views as a teenager? So different from what I have now...I used to dream I would marry and be happy ever after! lol It didn't work out that way....took me a second marriage to bring me to my senses.....hehehehe luckily that one was happy....
Also to learn that money doesn't grow on trees.....

skye wrote:

SpiritVoices wrote:I'm inclined to see both points of views here.

Looking back on my own life,I have changed so much,learned many bitter lessons and good lessons through my life.
I don't rush into instant decisions any more,I sit and ponder which are the best paths to go forward.  Leave the bad times behind and go forward into the good times....I hope!

It's usually the bitter lessons that help build our character. So in retrospect they actually become excellent lessons in helping us move forward.

Perhaps we gain wisdom as we age rather than maturity.

Very true,skye....I learned enough of those to come to my senses and I'm still learning..

SpiritVoices wrote:

Crystal wrote:
What were your views as a teenager? Or as a tweenie or even later? I think it is interesting to see how many people have changed. Many years ago it was really difficult to buy a Tarot deck or to buy crystals except raw minerals in a specialist shop or museum, now there are so many shops and look at those online!

Views as a teenager?  So different from what I have now...I used to dream I would marry and be happy ever after! lol    It didn't work out that way....took me a second marriage to bring me to my senses.....hehehehe   luckily that one was happy....
Also to learn that money doesn't grow on trees.....

Nor are the roads paved with gold lol :)

Did you believe in spirit then? Or a God, so many people after the war turned their backs on religion due to the horrendous things that happened, and as many turned back to it too, all depended on what they experienced.

Crystal wrote:

SpiritVoices wrote:

Crystal wrote:
What were your views as a teenager? Or as a tweenie or even later? I think it is interesting to see how many people have changed. Many years ago it was really difficult to buy a Tarot deck or to buy crystals except raw minerals in a specialist shop or museum, now there are so many shops and look at those online!

Views as a teenager?  So different from what I have now...I used to dream I would marry and be happy ever after! lol    It didn't work out that way....took me a second marriage to bring me to my senses.....hehehehe   luckily that one was happy....
Also to learn that money doesn't grow on trees.....

Nor are the roads paved with gold lol :)

Did you believe in spirit then? Or a God, so many people after the war turned their backs on religion due to the horrendous things that happened, and as many turned back to it too, all depended on what they experienced.

I do believe in a god but not as worshipped....I do believe something exists which rules the universe. I do believe there is something there after bodily death. Not sure about what we call 'heaven'.

Going back to my childhood years,remember I am a great deal older than most of you.

Childhood then was different to what it is to now. Parents were very strict,no staying out until 2am in the morning. My time to be back home was 9pm until I was older.
Boyfriends? (draws in breath) they were inspected from top to tail. Not so much my mother but my dad.....

Homework first after arriving home from school. No dilly-dallying around at street corners.....My dad would come looking for me if I was a minute late in arriving home...

Like prison in those days....

Yep but I bet you could walk to school at an early age and no metal detectors?

And.. we all knew who the people to avoid were?

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it's sweet stuff that days understood -
Day's brung all expected stuff possible, like expected stuff possible.

Maturity is raisin - i'm more like a raisin. 'I play hard still', but i'm just cheering and warming things up - and fpoon feed it like a cough drop, but stuff is lushie lushie on about - that or i'm a 'harder token guy'.
But bring on Raisin Maturity some thing to be proud of.
[ I'm a stuffed animal. ]












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Kids today have it easy. No discipline at all....
Maybe a bit of the hard ruling that we had would be good for them.

SpiritVoices wrote:Kids today have it easy.    No discipline at all....
Maybe a bit of the hard ruling that we had would be good for them.

The funny thing is... Ask kids today and they will tell you how hard they have it.. I tell my nephews and nieces all the time how good they have it and they don't even realize it.

Things that upset/ worried/ bothered me at 18 don't bother me at all now, but i'd love to have even half the energy I had at 18, I despair looking at the majority of 18 year olds today, like someone above said, no discipline (I had that) and not much of a decent future if the problems of the world continue as they are, kids today, if they think they've got it tough now they are in for some almighty shocks later on.

Crystal wrote:

SpiritVoices wrote:I'm inclined to see both points of views here.

Looking back on my own life,I have changed so much,learned many bitter lessons and good lessons through my life.
I don't rush into instant decisions any more,I sit and ponder which are the best paths to go forward.  Leave the bad times behind and go forward into the good times....I hope!

What were your views as a teenager? Or as a tweenie or even later? I think it is interesting to see how many people have changed. Many years ago it was really difficult to buy a Tarot deck or to buy crystals except raw minerals in a specialist shop or museum, now there are so many shops and look at those online!

My views as a teenager?    Good life ahead!      Not so good after that....

Sorry,I've messed this topic up...try to amend my answers.... 

Goes and crawls under a chair.... 

you maybe can cheerie you on and so then smell like a hipo, the kind all know how to dodge so well.

things ask for their massive - like a ''hey you, act a pipe - cause you gotta carry some load crossin' down tha lane''.


mature and it's reasons. maybe like galloping a horse, like a - hey i can ride that - you'd say.



mature is a i behave cause what did we just do 'click it up louder' so how good was it now.




mature is not a to love or not, just a did that swing me to tough or not - cause of a mature'd.

raison? no I am a plump sultana!

Maturity = Wisdom

millergrls wrote:Maturity = Wisdom and wisdom =maturity :)

This involves no age.

Crystal wrote:raison? no I am a plump sultana!

throbbin' stuff is for a chill - like a nite nite cools-off.

raisin -


'russ upon-a' not a raison.

millergrls wrote:

millergrls wrote:Maturity = Wisdom and wisdom =maturity :)

This involves no age.

you are great like teddy bear