Today after playing hide and go seek with my brother Aaron, sister Sara and cousin Ryan, Ryan told me I was immature, for the way I behaved. This made me think, am i immature? What is mature? I’m almost 25 years old and I’m still playing with kids, like a kid. I act silly and do things most grown men wouldn’t. I am sure lots of people would see that as immature and they may be right. Let’s talk about it.

Its easy to say what maturity is, its something fully developed. If you are still growing in height you could say your body isn’t fully matured. To be mature is to reach your peak of development.

I try my best every day to seperate myself from social norms and to question everything, and decide for myself what is the right thing to do. This inevitably leads me to become a outsider from society who will be viewed as odd. I’m fine with this, why I decided to live my life this way can be saved for another time. But I have concluded that I didn’t play enough. That most people don’t play enough.

I’m a poor example to society, I don’t do any work, but there are lots of other adults I know who actually do work hard and make time for play. There’s this idea that as you get older you have to stop playing, but its not true.

I think that play is something we should continue doing our entire lives.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-lost-art-of-play-reclaiming-a-primal-tradition/
If you’ll indulge me and read this article on the important of play perhaps you’ll believe me more when I say it has serious benefits. Its only after you stop playing that you halt certain cognitive developments. So yes its true that I am not mature because I play, and I hope I never mature.

I hope I continue to grow and develop myself forever and I hope you the reader understand that sometimes being immature just means you are continuing to grow.