MATURITY: Its Age, Misuse, Respect And Contemporaries

MATURITY: All my life(till date I might add), I've had a morbid fear and hatred of drugs, most people don't understand it. when I was quite little I would throw up and cause all manner of brouhaha(nice word huh? Hehehe thank you don't mention)and when I became a little older, I devised a method,i would make a face even though I didn't swallow the drugs(maturity?), but my dad found out and will make me open my hand,then search my mouth(smart man). So I devised another means(which lasted till I went to the university),i would throw the tantrum,in the midst of it I will throw the drugs under my bed,then put my empty hand into my mouth while throwing my head back,make the face and ask for Fanta to wash out the taste of the drug I didn't swallow(i was smart even then)and when my dad searches my hand and mouth there's nothing, at a point he stopped searching(when I left for school, there was enough drugs under my bed for a pharmacy lol). Then,i got to the university (whoop!!whooop!!!)where I didn't take any drugs and there was nobody to make me,i wouldn't go to a hospital when sick unless I got so sick my friends had to take me and when I got out, I didn't bother with the drugs(my family will call on the phone to no avail),i would even quarrel with friends when they insist I take it(maturity??). Then, after university, nobody even bothered me about drugs again, they just expect me to know better and if I don't want the drugs, then it's to my own detriment not theirs so they let me be. But you know something? I had gone to the hospital sometime ago and my Incredibly Hot Man (IHM) had to pay a boatload of money(our money)for a little service(good medicare is expensive in lagos)and. they had prescribed some drugs for me which we eventually got from their pharmacy. My IHM had said to me(knowing of my fight with drugs lol),"you really need to take this drugs",that was all and Voila!!! Today with no prompting, no promises, no threats, no arm twisting, I went to the cabinet, took out the drug,and after crying silently in repulsion,took the drug(maturity!!!). IT'S AGE: It's a myth that age and maturity are related, one has absolutely nothing to do with the other(no two things could be more unrelated).Maturity is your intellect, how far you're willing to think outside the box,how advanced your knowledge of people,life and the world is. Maturity is your willingness to see the future

and see your self in it and Age has nothing to do with these. Someone can be mature for their age, but still not mature enough. Most importantly, maturity has absolutely and totally nothing to do with achievement, matter of fact, most times,achievement hinders or aids the maturing process(it actually hinders more than it aids). Someone once said to me, I prefer older women because they are more mature but how old a person is, usually doesn't say much about how mature they are Maturity is enlightenment not age. MISUSE: People like to use maturity as a shield, ornament and most times a weapon. They are fund of saying things like," I am mature,so am going to let this slide" or "if not for maturity, I would've taught you a lesson"(gaan take several seats my friend!). If you're indeed mature,then people around you will know without you having to state it so often. Being mature is knowing the battles are not important but the war is(most people can't even tell the difference between a battle and a war). IT'S RESPECT: 2 be continued.......