Maturity Stinks!!!!

By Evan

People often tell me that I need to "grow up" to which I usually respond "Why?" and they do not know why. I, however, know why I shouldn't become mature. Now first of all, maturity for the purposes of this essay refers to emotional maturity. The other types of maturity, intellectual and physical are important to survival in the world today. If you can't walk and talk and control your bladder you may have some trouble in the world. Well actually you wouldn't assuming your parents kept feeding you but still its better to be able to explore the world.

To prove my point about maturity, let's compare what makes an immature person happy compared to making a mature person happy. A mature person is likely to be amused by books, sitcoms, relieving one self.....ummm I can't think of anything else for mature people. Immature people, however, can enjoy, splashing through the mud, making faces in a mirror, making strange noises in public, chasing squirrels around and around in circles, farting (Heh, heh, I farted!) and shoving playdough into anything that has a hole in it. As you can see by the list, immature people can be made happy much more readily than mature people.

In addition to the happiness factor, there is the matter of the two worlds that exist for everyone, the physical world, and the internal world within each person's mind. The internal world houses one's imagination which generates all that exists within the framework of the mind based upon experiences from the outside world. People are born almost entirely within their own world with little or no sense of the physical world at all. As people "mature" they lose touch with their internal world and become too firmly grounded in reality. The halting of the maturing process at about age 8 (although it would have to vary from child to child) would be good for allowing a maximum of experiences both without and within. The two worlds interwoven between each other are more interesting than either world is alone.

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