I am acting my age, but are you acting yours?

I am acting my age, but are you acting yours?

I have often heard people tell me to act my age instead of sounding like a little kid who has barely touched puberty. The “advice” never ceases to confuse me as I put in an immense effort to try and decipher the meaning and context in which the valuable
suggestion is offered to me.

For someone who is in his mid twenties, I feel rather strange to find myself struggling to understand something that is thrown at me on regular basis, a seemingly self-explanatory phrase that everyone but me is aware of.

What is maturity and how do you measure it is what the entire confusion is about. I was under the impression that when a person reaches a certain age, he is deemed mature, an adjective that underscores his ability to act sensibly, comprehend complex situations
and handle them in the most appropriate way, possesses a comprehensive knowledge about a variety of issues and has the competence to lead rather than being led.

To completely fit the above mentioned description of maturity is something that is beyond any human’s capacity. It is only natural to excel in a few things, while lacking in others. Therefore, to judge someone on a certain deficiency is rather misleading
and unfair.

I do not claim to be an intellectual, but as far as my analysis goes, there is no such thing as maturity. It is just an image that every person is expected to embrace and adhere to after a certain age. There is a reason nobody is able to fully fit the description
and no it is not because of the deficiencies or whatsoever. It is mainly because the very concept of maturity is a faux.

People never get mature, but rather learn to hide their authentic behaviour to blend in society. They are expected to exhibit certain characteristics after stepping out of their teen years, as the failure to do that makes them a prime target of overgrown
bullies, who ironically harass you for acting immature when they themselves are acting like kids from junior school.

Laying down standards for how we are supposed to behave, what we are supposed to talk about after a certain age, how we should react to certain situations serves no purpose but to complicate life.

My advice to everyone going through this article is to stop fooling yourself and kindly stop pestering those around you over the issue of maturity. Maybe it is time for you people to learn a thing or two from those seemingly child-like people as they have
the confidence to hold on to their originality and show off their reality instead of hiding behind a thick skin and pretending to be mister-know-it-all, when in actual all you people do is talk filth, think filth, make life miserable for people around you
because of your make-belief maturity.

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Posted by Muhammad Qasim Hassan on Jan 17 2012. Filed under Opinion, Society. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry