50 Ways To Be Mature
Shane Battier - As mature as it gets.
To get a little bit closer to being mature, take a look at the following 50 attributes and see if you can readily apply any of them.
As I’m only 21, these are about as close as I can get to explaining some broad characteristics of maturity.
There are surely many other aspects which I have not mentioned, but hopefully by the time I am 30 or so this list will double in my mind.
Please add your own thoughts as a comment, even if it is along the same lines of something I have already mentioned.
(By the way, I’m really interested in comments from those past middle-age, so please don’t be shy!)
- Eat healthy.
- Obtain adequate sleep.
- Exercise frequently.
- Prove yourself to your parents.
- Get tested for sexually transmitted diseases.
- Use contraceptives.
- Keep abreast of world affairs, whether you like it or not.
- Be able to say no.
- Put wrappers in the garbage instead of down the side of the couch.
- Always go only 1-6 mph over the speed limit, even if there isn’t a policeman in sight.
- Don’t be racist. Period.
- Wash your jeans even though they “aren’t dirty.”
- Do as you say you will, every single time.
- Don’t get married until you have lived with your fiancee, first. (If for whatever reason you can’t do this, at least accept a prolonged engagement.) Then, do so for no other reason but tax purposes. (OK, ok, LOVE, too
) - Be early, but not too early.
- Read something worthwhile every day.
- Motivate yourself.
- Ask others for help when you need it.
- Know when to hush.
- Praise others for their hard work, diligence, and even luck.
- Start to save for retirement before you get your first wrinkle.
- Change plans when necessary.
- Don’t mock another culture until you’ve lived in it. After that, play ball.
- Pursue positive habits.
- Moderate or eliminate drug use.
- Refuse to be negatively influenced.
- Be courteous, but true to yourself.
- Keep going, even when it hurts.
- Understand many different beliefs before choosing your own.
- Leave religion and politics at home.
- Place the happiness of children and the elderly above your own.
- Don’t be afraid to try your best and fail.
- Understand the difference between a want and a need.
- Delay gratification when necessary.
- Thank those who mean something to you.
- Concede that toilet paper doesn’t care whether it is installed upside down.
- Apologize, even when it hurts to admit you were wrong. (In fact, in most cases, apologize even if you weren’t wrong.)
- Forgive, even when you were mistreated – not for the offender, but for yourself.
- Share what you can.
- Care for those who need it.
- Laugh every day.
- If you support a war and are of the age and physical condition to participate, you have a moral obligation to do so.
- Expect ten times more from yourself and ten times less from others.
- Know that a person’s occupation, however prestigious or menial, does not determine their worth as a human being.
- Know that if something isn’t broken, unlike the old axiom you need to get it looked at anyway because by the time it breaks it will be too late.
- Realize that life is a series of ups and downs; a few rainy days do not mean the end of contentment forever.
- Have insurance for every aspect of your insurable life.
- Vote.
- Treat people not the way YOU want to be treated, rather, treat people the way they SHOULD be treated.
- Die knowing that you have made at least one other human being’s life a little bit better.
51) Don’t be like Bill Box.
wow thankyou sir this was a nice outlook
Wow, ever since I read this and started living by it I have started living life from a new perspective by being open minded instead of having a very narrow mind, so I thank you for that.
ever sice i have read this website you r website will help a lill bit better each day i will think of the ways to be a lill bit mature than what iam at this point and i will prove to everybody that iam mature enough and that i can act mamture enough to make it thourgh or at least try to make it thourgh thank you so very much and keep on putting comments and post whats up and how to be mature and how to live life a littele bit better each day and have faith and belive or at least try to thank you again and have a wonderful weekend Nikki t Branch
what does: ‘Leave religion and politics at home.’ mean?
forget about GOD?
What I mean is this: watch what you discuss outside of your own residence.
Nothing makes enemies faster than decrying another’s politics or religion.
Leave religion at home?… I don’t agree, that is what is wrong with America. Your christian views and morals are who you are and should follow you where ever you go!! Please don’t tell young people such a wwrong answer..this is si contrary to the Holy word.
DERKA DUR
i been in a serious relationship for 2 years and i’ve never had any problems with my boyfriend until now.. what should i do?
Thank you sir for all the information i’m an opend minded person and Tina he is right leave religious and politics at home but i didn’t understand this part: “Concede that toilet paper doesn’t care whether it is installed upside down” can you please explain it.
I have been told all my life I was a mature young man until the say I met a girl.. Well a very, different, interesting, young women. After dating her for 5 months she finally came out saying I was immature and we broke up. I want her back, and honestly I have no idea how to convince her or become mature.
Kawwwaaabooonga dudes…!!!
how to act mature with a self obssesing person
my husbads attitude is completely different he never listen to me but always tries to make me feel that i am not mature
how can i make him feel that i am not childish
plz give some more tips these are not working out
lol you have a lot of growing up to do you liberal. this is just a scheme to say that the war is bad and bring politics into the matter subliminally after saying to leave it at home. Grow up kid. 22 – male
I’m post middle age…great list! I hope it helps someone out there.
ignore ignorace when its in place
thank you
Thanks. This is a really good list. =)