Are you mature enough?

This post Youth and Those made me think whether I am mature enough. My mom has always been saying that grow up..grow up.

When discussing the plight of teenagers with adults, i’m often chastised for viewing teens as mature humans capable of making reasonable decisions. All too often, people point to all that psychological research that indicates that teens are experiencing extensive hormonal rushes that impair their judgment. And then i go home to my 30-something friends who see a baby and start cooing as their biological clock begs for attention. And then i talk to people my mom’s age going through menopause and being about as coo-coo as they come. And then i get calls from my older male friends who are experiencing their midlife crisis and think that trading in their wife for people my age is a good idea. I don’t think that teenagers are the only population facing impaired judgment. In fact, i’m curious at what age one’s judgment is really all that functional. Read More

So here is my test.. lets see whether i have matured or not.. (the list being taken from the post, as per th post these one should learn as early as possible..)

• Learn to manage your own money including situations where you don’t have enough money for something really important;
  • Okey, learnt and doing.
• Work to make your own money;
  • Making some money
• Learn how to come up with money for monthly bills;
  • Ofcourse, i learnt it otherwise how i am surviving.
• Learn how to cook, clean, and do laundry;
  • Oh… dont know how to cook, cleaning and luandry .. can do but completely depedent on my maid.
• Learn how to take care of small children;
  • Small children.. let me make them first then i ll learn how to take care of
• Learn how to handle sickness and doctors;
  • i can handle sickness, doctors a bit doubtful.
• Learn how to travel (airplane, bus, etc.) on your own;
  • Yes ofcourse..
• Learn to travel respectfully to foreign cultures;
  • Yes, i did my best.. yet to get any recognition for that!
• Learn how to handle being drunk;
  • no idea, but know how to handle drunk people. I have started my kick boxing practice.
• Experience being bullied, embarrassed, ridiculed, taunted, beaten up;
  • ofcourse, otherwise why i could have gone for kick boxing classes?
• Be exposed to people really different than you and learn tolerance and respect;
  • everyday..
• Face failure and learn disappointment + face success and learn humility;
  • the first half yes.. success .. hmm yet to meet tete a tete.
• Experience heartbreak;
  • Oh.. dont remind..
• Manage significant emotional or physical pain;
  • refer the above question.. got both.
• Handle the death of someone close to you.
  • yes.

So got more than ten Yes… So… i am a mature person.. oh.. revelation!

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