Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site tektronix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!richl 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 Article-I.D.: tektroni.1232 Posted: Sun Jul 24 23:05:09 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 25-Jul-83 13:10:54 EDT Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 17 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 richl@tektronix ...!tektronix!richl