Emotional Maturity: Life Is Not Perfect
Emotional maturity means being happy, even though you know life isn’t perfect. You develop this maturity as you learn from the lessons life throws at you.
It means climbing mountains and experiencing life to strengthen your self-image and learn how to deal with certain things that make you uncomfortable so that you can learn, change and grow.
As time goes on, you will understand more and more that no form of love is more powerful than self-love. Self-love is the foundation for the way you approach life.
This love is our support and the walking stick we use to get up after we fall so that it is less painful to walk afterwards.
Emotional maturity develops over time with every blow life throws at you. Isn’t it strange that we grow so much when we go through a period of stress, mourning or suffering?
At a time when there is a handbook for almost everything, there is still no handbook called: Handbook for Life: How to Grow Up.
This message is filtered through all the other things in our lives that tell us what we should or shouldn’t be or what we should or shouldn’t achieve.
Because everyone is unique and the Handbook for Life: How to Grow Up does not exist, we don’t have access to a formula that can tell you how you should live or how you will grow.
Signs of emotional maturity
There comes a point in our emotional journey when we begin to reflect on the paths we have taken in life. What are some of the signs of emotional maturity?
1. Know when to let go
Emotionally mature people all know that life is much more pleasant when you live it freely.
They know how to let go of the things that are no longer useful in their lives, because they realize that looking back to the past keeps them from closing chapters in life and healing emotional wounds.
2. Accept life and heal your emotional pain
When you have learned from your pain, the fear of looking inside yourself to heal your emotional past is gone and you can finally take a step forward in life.
3. Learn how to communicate what you think and feel
By avoiding looking inside you, you give the past a chance to interfere with your present. As a result, there is not much room for positive things and, moreover, it hurts. A lot of pain.
The mental clarity that emotionally mature individuals possess is in stark contrast to the laziness and constant chaos of those who have not yet reached this state of maturity.
Mental maturity will help you effectively solve the problems in your daily life.
4. Stop Complaining
Emotionally mature people have learned both to accept their lives and to change them, but complaining is good for nothing.
5. Don’t punish yourself for your mistakes
Making mistakes is the best way to learn because it allows you to find out what your shortcomings are. Adult people don’t punish themselves for their limitations; on the contrary, they look for ways to improve themselves.
6. Be emotionally open
As you mature, you begin to realize that emotional blocks only get in the way of your development. While some barriers are indeed necessary, sometimes it is also important to break down those barriers.
Mature people enjoy some alone time as well as sharing their time with others
The text below is attributed to Charlie Chaplin. It is a beautiful way to look at the journey through life, growing up and changing:
