Maturity is a function of solving life problems

 

It’s not maturity if you solve paper problems, or specific problems

That’s why many man of science, art, many geniuses, are otherwise immature and one-dimensional

 

It’s not maturity if you have “seen it all” either

You must have “done it all”

Anyone could have “seen it all” from the comfort of their couch, on the tv screen

That is not maturity

 

There is life with all it’s many facets: surviving, thriving, working, building, creating, serving, leading, dreaming, loving

Man who had successfully explored it’s many facets is called MATURE

 

Maturity entails difficulty and adversity

Difficulty and adversity doesn’t yet make one mature — but it is required

Many fools have had hard lives and worked hard and learnt nothing

Many inspired men have gotten a free ride and landed in a good place — and they do do belong there — but they know little of the real life

 

Difficulty is an inherent element of life

Experience of difficulty is indicative of being unprepared for the challenge

This is a good thing

This is the point

That is what defines a challenge

That it is new and challenging

 

Life itself is nothing less nothing more but the UNRAVELLING of the NEW

When the new ends — life ends

Only the DEAD is old, and it’s very old

 

Since life is The New and New entails challenge and challenge entails difficulty — LIFE entails difficulty and overcoming

To live is to probe into the unknown of existence

This dying of the known is tremendously difficult

To have challenged the unknown, the new, is to have became mature

 

In our day to day lives difficulty manifests in the form of daily struggles, fears, hard work, doubts, complacency, laziness

Most of it is psychological, an experience of resistance to change

Part of it is literal: such as actual tiredness, actual boredom, actual hopelessness and inability and inundation

 

Again, this difficulty alone is not alone responsible for maturation and growth — but it is one of the many elements that ripen one’s soul — and is in itself indicative of the NEW, of the exploration, of the challenge and PROBLEM SOLVING

 

Life well lived will invariably test you

To explore existence is to push boundaries: your boundaries, world’s boundaries

To explore existence is to solve your problems — then solve world’s problems — then solve your problems, again

You solve one problem and then you find another problem to solve

You go from solving carnal problems to worldly material problems to non-material spiritual problems

This is how you mature and grow

 

Again, don’t seek challenges artificially or struggle on purpose

That behaviour is either routinely and dull — or self-loathing and anti-life

Such hardship will either be instrument of your ossification — or outright descent to hell-realms in existence: the insane and evil notion that suffering per se has any purpose

 

Most men struggle out of torpor and meekness

This is not a real struggle but just a life unwell lived, and lowly realms on earth, boring unhappiness

The real challenge would be to break out of the routine

The real challenge would be to overcome one’s meekness, subservience, complacency

 

The sacred miracle of life doesn’t demand of you to suffer but to IMMERSE yourself in the mystery

And to embrace all the challenges which come along the way

And to explore the many facets of life

And to solve problems of each level

And then finally solve the ultimate problem of your presence in this world

And this is maturity

And this is a life well lived