Setting Aside Immaturity

                When you were a child, you thought like a child, you spoke like a child, and you acted like a child. You enjoyed childish things; you spent your time and attention on entertainments directed at children. Hopefully when you reached your teenage years, you transitioned away from childish things and began to focus on thoughts, words, and activities of a teenage nature.

               When you reached university age, hopefully your use of time, your thoughts, your words, and your actions matured beyond that of childishness and teenage years. I challenge everyone reading this short collection of thoughts to self-analyze, self-critique, and ask hard questions about your use of time, your use of money, how you think, how you speak, and what you find entertaining.

               If you are an adult, are you still entertained by silliness, foolishness, vulgarity or games? In whatever shape your mind and heart are in, your role as a parent and friend will be impacted by these things and will influence those around you. Work hard to be the best version of you, be the one in the room with wisdom, with knowledge, with answers, and be the one to whom others go to for direction.

If you are still a child in thoughts, words, and actions, then this is a sad reality out of which you should mature. Add value to your life, to the life of others, and be the mature one in the group rather than the silly child who is entertained by childishness. Set aside immaturity, set aside emptiness, set aside shallowness, and set aside vanity. Find those things that are excellent, those things that add value to you and to others, embrace them, and live like an adult.