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Another definition question. Maturity. Seriously what does that mean? I think it has a different meaning for everyone and that is totally valid. Whose to say what is and is not mature. Obviously there are the occasional commonalities, but really, who chooses what one can do and still be considered mature and vise versa. I guess the discrepancy is more apparent in what is immature than what is mature, we all know it is mature to admit to being wrong and to help someone out with nothing in return, but immaturity, what is that? Is it immature to laugh loudly in public? Is it immature to make a funny face? I think a lot of the times people who have made the self-proclamation of being mature people, confuse silliness, frivolity and acting crazy as immature behaviour, when really this is so open for debate, who are they to say this is immature. Now intellectual maturity is another thing. Have you only reached maturity once you are able to communicate your feelings well with spoken word, or once you feel confident in crowds, for example,  and are the lack of those characteristics in a person not just as legitimate as having them? Maybe, maybe not, I don't know yet for sure either. Being able to develop your thoughts and a state of awareness of oneself are mature qualities, do we all agree? But isn't someone who goes around accusing others of being immature for simply committing acts that they themselves would never do an immature person themselves? It seems in some weird backwards way that "mature" people can't always understand where others are coming from and when they do not understand something in another person, they ill-accuse the quality to be immaturity. I do not mean to sound as though I am opposed to maturity, because that would just be silly, but I simply think we all need to question what the word means to us and realize there are legitimate variations on the term. Is this a fair request, I think so. Right now, at this moment in time, maturity for me means knowing who you are and being fully comfortable with that, but in a way that come so naturally that you are completely unaware of this thoughts presence, because the moment you cling to  your own sense of maturity, you lose a little piece of it.