Hello, and welcome to my first post in this thread!

For some reason that sentence made me feel really good about my self. Thank you.

Yeah, it really took me long. Since I've got absolutely no practice in l33t, it was a bunch of work, believe me . I really tried hard to model the language as accurate as possible, but I can imagine there are "better" ones...well, never mind...this is going nowhere...

Seriously, I do connect "maturity" to "wisdom", which in my point of view both say the same. It grows on expertise, which in most cases equals to the age (with special emphasis on MOST - meaning not all!).

I do catch myself sometimes acting childish, and I always say that next time I'll do better, but it seems as if I was caught in some kind of infinite loop. I'm a human being, and therefor error-prone...

Though the poster (already forgot his name) refused to being polite (which he really seems good at!), he at least proved him being immature. As far as I remember none of your definitions of "maturity" matches him.

Ahem.. way to go, it's off-topic now Chris Katko.

That music video is awesome. At first I was thinking "ugh, rap crap".. but it's probably one of the best rap songs I've ever heard, and I'm not even American so I don't fully relate to the material.
Really powerful.

There is also the fact that someone knows that something they do is wrong. Yet, they still do it anyway. Would them knowing it is wrong be considered them having wisdom of the fact?

I would too. Why don't you start it?

Don't talk, do.

Hmmm...my 'definition' wasn't meant to let this case be valid, and no, I can't think of any way to explain it properly what I meant. Maybe I should just go to sleep, it's late enough ... I might give it another try in 3-4 hours (when I have to get up again).

Someone said once that wisdom was "the ability to always make people in your surroundings feel comfortable".

You can cross me off of your list now :

I would be ashamed to repeat such a tasteless joke and even more ashamed to fail to grasp elementary concepts of the English language.

Rally Monkey:
I mean no offense, but hear me out. I used to be much like you. Except more crazy. Read my original posts on this forum. Or, better not. I've learned about myself that I commonly project my own bad traits onto others. For example, this other guy you're trying to bash / recieve comments on. You're saying that he apepars immature, and what nonesense. Whatever the case may be. It's always a challenge of wits. In this case, you have lost. You have pointed out a person's weakest point - maturity. By pointing out the most deadly value of anybody, you have thus weakened that value of yourself in the eyes of the people reading this thread.

Why care what we think of this person? Why care what we think at all? Do you have that much respect for us? No, I think not. Are you that insecure? Yes? Maybe it's time you found something that you can stand strong with, and it appears to not be pointing out other people's weak points.

Or, if I was Yves,

ZOMG!!1~~
IM SO SORY!!!11one~

I would say maturity is responsibility. Once you are taking complete responsibility for what you are doing and saying, and also for basically everything happening around you, you are mature. The amount of this phenomena may define 'level' of maturity.

This can explain pretty well how some 10 years old kids can be mature, and how some 30 years old are not. This also fits with boys maturing faster than girls. Particularly, if a baby constantly recieves care and protection, he will not learn to be responsible. But if he is left on his own, then he will know for sure it's all up to him. Something like this.

And I know, I was not mature until 20.

Yep, there was no excuse that time. But, you'll probably be happy to hear I won't be posting here much anymore.

I'd more or less agree with Thomas H's definition given at the top of this thread. Maturity is when people no longer react in an extreme (or `childish') way to every new situation.
I could more easily define it by example than generically though. The reply quoted in the first message doesn't look particularly mature to me.

This is the first time I've heard that... as far as I always heard, it's the other way around. At least in my experience, girls are more mature than boys of the same age...

It's hard to define in one sentence what matury is so I think the easiest way to define it would be for us to build a list of qualities/caracteristics of a person mature people have.