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From: richl@tektronix.UUCP (Rick Lindsley)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Maturity
Message-ID: <1232@tektronix.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-Jul-83 23:05:09 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 24 23:05:09 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 25-Jul-83 13:10:54 EDT
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Maturity is difficult to measure by age. As in all other things, you
can get a rough guide, but you don't want to use that guide as a Bible.
I have met some incredibly immature 19 year olds, and some remarkably
mature 18 year olds. I think the entire idea of labeling an x-year-old
as immature and a y-year-old as mature is doomed to fail, as are most
generalities. I have known elderly people who consider anybody less than
30 immature. Are they any less correct?

I don't hang a "mature" or "immature" label on anyone for this exact
reason. Each person defines "mature" and "immature" in different ways.
To paraphrase Mark Twain:

	"Everybody is immature, only in different areas."

Rick Lindsley
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