Being Older Doesn’t Mean That You’re More Mature

It’s no longer a sufficient excuse

Have you ever made a connection between age and maturity? Ever stated or felt that someone was “mature for their age?”

If so, there is some merit to what you’re saying.

We tend to make a correlation between age and maturity because if someone’s lived longer than someone else on Earth, chances are, they’ve experienced more, know more, have had more time to grow, and are consequently more mature.

That’s the case many times, but there also exists other cases where we have older folks who act childish and immature.

What’s the deal? Why does this happen?

I argue that age doesn’t have as much of a correlation to maturity as commonly thought.

In other words, we attribute maturity to age too much. We give age itself too much credit.

Age itself just means how many times you’ve been around the Sun.

• It doesn’t mean that you’re a quick learner of life lessons.