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At what age (or stage of life) do you think maturity comes and you quit being young?

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    #32
    victoriaa
    Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭victoriaa


    66 years 4 months 32 days 7 hours and 2/5 minutes old


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    #33
    kev_s88
    Registered Users Posts: 2,637 ✭✭✭kev_s88


    well for me it happened when i failed Maths in my Leaving Cert, and i realised i had to go out and get a full-time job until i could repeat the next summer....

    i got a proper job with proper responsibility and i grew up over night...since then i have been 100% grown up :(


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    #34
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    maaa---turrrr---ity???


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    #35
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,905 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    I'm 21 now. After 24 hours of it, I still don't know if it means anything.


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    #36
    Crumble Froo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    ive been there for about 5 months dude, and so far... nope. doesnt mean anything yet.


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    #37
    mobius42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭mobius42


    Never. I stopped maturing at age 17 and have been faking it ever since.


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    #38
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,222 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    When you stop caring what other people think of how you look/what you do/what you drive, etc.
    Some time in the 30s for most people.


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    #39
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    I'm 25 and I don't feel mature at all... Age is but a number.


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    #40
    citizen_p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭citizen_p


    15/16
    only in aspects though....still have a laugh with my mates


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    #41
    FredBaby!
    Registered Users Posts: 182 ✭✭FredBaby!


    i think i was born mature...


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    #42
    Teutorix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    Yer ma's mature! :cool:


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    #43
    Jackobyte
    Registered Users Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭Jackobyte


    Maturity comes when you trade in your "boy racer" car to buy a ppl carrier to bring your kids to school!!! Anyone who owns a Citreon Picasso is mature!!!:P


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    #44
    Crumble Froo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    and for those of us who refuse to learn to drive...?


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    #45
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,905 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Crumble Froo wrote: »
    and for those of us who refuse to learn to drive...?

    Tandem bicycles?


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    #46
    Jackobyte
    Registered Users Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭Jackobyte


    Crumble Froo wrote: »
    and for those of us who refuse to learn to drive...?
    U keep your youth???


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    #47
    rhapsody!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 529 ✭✭✭rhapsody!


    I'm 18 but I don't look like an adult.. I keep getting hit on by drunk old sleazy men with beards like the Forest of Dean.


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    #48
    rhapsody!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 529 ✭✭✭rhapsody!


    Teutorix wrote: »
    Yer ma's mature! :cool:

    You become mature when you stop saying this.


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    #49
    Jackobyte
    Registered Users Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭Jackobyte


    Yer ma's mature:cool:
    rhapsody! wrote: »
    You become mature when you stop saying this.

    Exactly,spot on ^^^^


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    #50
    Arcade Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Arcade Panda


    When I turned 18 I don't know what I thought was going to happen but I genuinely think I thought that the clouds would part and I would become suddenly mature.....unfortunately that was not the case, I know this because "mature" people don't get escorted out of nightclubs for being too drunk on there 18th birthdays and told, "come back when your 21"...my bad.

    My dad always refers to Dave Fanning as "a bit of a peter pan, he never grew up"...he always says it really negatively aswell...I dunno...That's something I genuinely aspire to! Not that I don't want responsibilities and stuff, I just want a young outlook on life for the rest of my life:)


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    #51
    D4RK ONION
    Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    Maturing is the greatest myth ever perpetuated. True maturity is knowing that as we get older, we figure out that there is no being an "adult", and that really, we're all teenagers at heart no matter what age we are.


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    #52
    norwegianwood
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭norwegianwood


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Maturity and being an adult are two completely different things. At 23 I would be considered an adult, but I would not consider myself to be mature.

    But I guess the it kinda struck me the most when I was 16 and this little kid came over to me and started messing. Promptly his mother shouted, "leave that man alone!". Always before someone would have said "boy" but not "man"



    weird, I had a similar experience recently. A little kid ran out in front of me in a shop and nearly tripped me over. His mam came over and she was like 'Come on, out of the lady's way!' It was a couple of minutes before I realized she was talking about me.


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