Are you mature like a child?

Mature and compassioned child

Have you ever stopped to think about what maturity means?

I fully agree with Osho who defines maturity as "childhood recovered".

But I also like to think maturity as a fruit.

Think about this: we say that a fruit is "ripe" when it is at the right point to fulfill its mission in life: to feed another being. And now I ask you: isnt it the mission of all individuals to make life and the world more pleasant, safer, cleaner, more organized and etc for the children that will live thereafter? If it is not, then what is it?

Indeed I feel compeled to think that a "mature" human being is one who is supposedly ready to fulfill his role in society.

By saying that maturity is "recovered childhood", Osho leads us to reflect on who we are in the deepest part of our being, that is, what we are before being formatted by external social standards such as our culture.

Would Joseph Smith Jr have founded The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints if he had been born to Muslim parents? Or would Osama Bin Laden have attacked the twin towers if he had been born in Christian America? Certainly not.

But then who are we? Who are you?

Or rather, who were we before we were born, since when we are born we have our opinions, worldviews, lifestyle, political beliefs and religions delegated to the whole that surrounds us?

Maturity, therefore, is nothing more than the ability or quality to look at yourself in the mirror of life and perceive the ties, handcuffs, seals and plugs that tied, blinded and deafened us throughout our journey. Only a mature being is able to perceive and break with limiting beliefs and ideological, political, religious and social standards imposed on him by the environment.

Who remembers seeing a child on the playground refusing to play or interact with another child due to the clothes they are wearing (which in many cases betray their beliefs)? Never, right?

Children do not know what beliefs are and care little about them. That's why they hate accompanying their parents to any "formal" commitment like masses, services and the like. They can barely keep quiet and don't care to understand about the ideology they try to impose on them; their minds and especially their hearts are elsewhere. They are where it really matters: out there, on the pebble, on the earth, on the flower, on the ant, on the smile of the beggar who passes on the other side of the street to whom they would have no problem giving a hug or extending a hand.

Being mature is, therefore, I think... just BEING.

Far from everything that has been imposed on you, just being: being able to find and know your own essence.

Discover the innocence, humility and compassion that dwell in the center of your heart and approach life with love and peace, refusing to cause harm of any kind to the world.

Maturity is, in fact, the greatest of life's paradoxes, because to be mature is to be a child again.

However, it is a new kind of childhood. It is a conscious childhood. It is a responsible childhood, awake, acute and full of benevolence. A childhood that lives in the here and now and that sees, feels and hears the yearnings of the world and no longer just follows them; now she guides them.

Do you agree?

Have a peaceful and loving day ahead of you.

Dont give up!

Your journey mate, Augusto.